Smooth quantile ratio estimation with regression: Estimating medical expenditures for smoking-attributable diseases

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 505-519

  Dominici, Francesca ^a   Zeger, Scott L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Comparing means; Health expenditures; Log normal; Propensity scores; Q Q plots; Quantile regression; Regression splines; Skewed distributions; Smoking

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MEDICARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 26644458846     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxi031     Document Type: Article

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