Table 1.

Parameter Settings of Scenarios Studied Through Simulations

Scenario	K	p ··	P(out)	H	S	min(nk)	P(nmin)
1	10-50	0.10	0.2	2	2	1000	0.5
2	50	0.03-0.20	0.2	2	2	1000	0.5
3	50	0.10	0.08-0.4	2	2	1000	0.5
4	50	0.10	0.2	1-4	2	1000	0.5
5	50	0.10	0.2	2	1-2	1000	0.5
6	50	0.10	0.2	2	2	500-1000	0.5
7	50	0.10	0.2	2	2	500	0.5-1

Shown are the Number of Providers (K), Average Mortality Rate Over Centers (p_··), Percentage of True Outliers (P(out)), Factor by Which the Outlier Distributions Were Shifted (H), Amount of Sides That the Outliers Were Drawn From (S), Minimum Provider Volume (min(n_k)), and the Probability of Outliers Being Small Providers (P(nmin))