Percentile-based empirical distribution function estimates for performance evaluation of healthcare providers

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 575-589

  Paddock, Susan M ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Empirical distribution function; Ensemble; Hierarchical model; Statistical benchmark

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960844412     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2010.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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