Estimating marginal and incremental effects on health outcomes using flexible link and variance function models

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-109

  Basu, Anirban ^a   Rathouz, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Econometric models; Estimating equations; Generalized linear models; Link function; Variance function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICIAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICIANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16244368010     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxh020     Document Type: Article

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