Quantile regression: A statistical tool for out-of-hospital research

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 789-797

  Austin, Peter C ^a,c   Schull, Michael J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Models; Quantile regression; Regression analysis; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0038109742     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.7.789     Document Type: Review

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