A computer program for estimating the re-transformed mean in heteroscedastic two-part models

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 210-216

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b   Cheng, Hao ^c  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer programs; Confidence intervals; Costs; Nonparametric; Skewed data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; NONPARAMETRIC; SKEWED DATA;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE COST; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 42249092645     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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