Bayesian inference for hospital quality in a selection model

Econometrica

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1215-1238

  Geweke, John ^b   Gowrisankaran, Gautam ^b   Town, Robert J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Bureau of Economic Research ^*

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Hospital quality; MCMC; Medicare; Mortality; Pneumonia; Simultaneous equations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; HOSPITAL QUALITY; SELECTION MODEL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0141606754     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00444     Document Type: Article

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