Copula bivariate probit models: With an application to medical expenditures

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1444-1455

  Winkelmann, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

binary endogenous regressor; bivariate probit; Clayton copula; Frank copula

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868514298     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1801     Document Type: Article

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