Specification tests for the sample selection and two-part models

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 201-208

  Norton, Edward C ^a   Dow, William H ^b   Do, Young Kyung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health expenditures; Heckman selection correction; Mean square error criterion; Specification tests; Two part model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 56349148685     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10742-008-0037-8     Document Type: Article

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