Joint modeling of medical cost and survival in complex sample surveys

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1509-1523

  Xu, Huiping ^a   Daggy, Joanne ^a   Yu, Danni ^b   Craig, Bruce A ^b   Sands, Laura ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex survey; Medical cost data; Random effects; Sample weights; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; JOINT MODELLING APPROACH; LONG TERM CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876336654     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5617     Document Type: Article

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