Health service utilization and insurance coverage: A multivariate probit analysis

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 441, 1998, Pages 63-72

  Gibbons, Robert D ^a   Wilcox Gök, Virginia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health service utilization; Medicaid; Medicare; Multivariate probit regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032337233     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10474088     Document Type: Article

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