Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models in the Analysis of Variations in Health Care Utilization

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 29-42

  Daniels, Michael J ^a   Gatsonis, Constantine ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services research; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Multilevel model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442325063     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473816     Document Type: Article

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