Fixed-effect or Random-effect Models: What are the Key Inference Issues?

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-27

  Setodji, Claude M ^a   Shwartz, Michael ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; FIXED EFFECT MODEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM EFFECT MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT READMISSION;

EID: 84871595055     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31827a8bb0     Document Type: Editorial

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