Comparing least-squares and quantile regression approaches to analyzing median hospital charges

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 866-875

  Olsen, Cody S ^a   Clark, Amy E ^a   Thomas, Andrea M ^a   Cook, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84863945142     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01388.x     Document Type: Article

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