Using simulation-based inference with panel data in health economics

Health Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-122

  Contoyannis, Paul ^a   Jones, Andrew M ^b   Leon Gonzales, Roberto ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Determinants of health; Econometrics; Panel data; Simulation methods

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 1142275383     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.811     Document Type: Review

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