Estimating a weighted average of stratum-specific parameters

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 4972-4991

  Brumback, Babette A ^a   Winner, Larry H ^b   Casella, George ^b   Ghosh, Malay ^b   Hall, Allyson ^a   Zhang, Jianyi ^c   Chorba, Lorna ^c   Duncan, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Heterogeneity; Random effects model; Shrinkage; Stratified sample; Weighted average

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH INSURANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAID; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE; ALGORITHM; CONSUMER; HUMAN; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MEDICAID; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59849110654     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3326     Document Type: Article

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