Discharge rates of medicare stroke patients to skilled nursing facilities: Bayesian logistic regression with unobserved heterogeneity

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 433, 1996, Pages 29-41

  Kahn, Michael J ^a   Raftery, Adrian E ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Betabinomial model; Empirical Bayes procedure; Laplace approximation; Locally uniform prior distribution; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001772549     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476661     Document Type: Article

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