A flexible two-part random effects model for correlated medical costs

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-123

  Liu, Lei ^a   Strawderman, Robert L ^c   Cowen, Mark E ^b   Shih, Ya Chen T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Saint Joseph Mercy Health System   (United States)

^c Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health econometrics; Medical cost data; Mixed model; Random effect; Zero inflated data

Indexed keywords

COST; ECONOMETRICS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIBULL THEORY;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE COST; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC;

EID: 77049110774     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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