A flexible model for the mean and variance functions, with application to medical cost data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 4306-4318

  Chen, Jinsong ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Zhang, Daowen ^b   Shih, Ya ChenT ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized cross validation; Generalized linear model; Health econometrics; Semiparametric regression; Smoothing parameter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERALIZED SEMIPARAMETRIC MODEL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LOGLINEAR MODEL; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84885082985     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5838     Document Type: Article

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