Use of the beta - binomial distribution to model the effect of policy changes on appropriateness of hospital stays

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 371-382

  Gange, Stephen J ^a   Muñoz, Alvaro ^a,d   Sáez, Marc ^b   Alonso, Jordi ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated binary data; Health services research; Logistic regression; Public health; Repeated measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040240054     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986094     Document Type: Article

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