Bayesian variable selection using cost-adjusted BIC, with application to cost-effective measurement of quality of health care

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 663-690

  Fouskakis, D ^a   Ntzoufras, I ^b   Draper, D ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian information criterion (BIC); Cost adjusted BIC; Cost benefit analysis; Input output analysis; Laplace approximation; MCMC model composition (MC 3); Quality of health care; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) methods; Sickness at hospital admission

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949122626     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS207     Document Type: Article

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