Selection of related multivariate means: Monitoring psychiatric care in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 461, 2003, Pages 7-16

  Landrum, Mary Beth ^a   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^a,b   Rosenheck, Robert A ^c,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c VA NE Program Evaluation Center ^*  (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical modeling; Latent variable models; Mahalanobis distance; Mental illness; Prior information; Profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037363252     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214503388619049     Document Type: Article

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