Estimation of the retransformed conditional mean in health care cost studies

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-158

  Wang, Huixia Judy ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Conditional mean; Heteroscedastic regression model; Medical cost; Quantile regression; Skewed data; Two part model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249153179     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asp072     Document Type: Article

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