A marginalized two-part model for semicontinuous data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 4891-4903

  Smith, Valerie A ^a,b   Preisser, John S ^b   Neelon, Brian ^a,c   Maciejewski, Matthew L ^a,d  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care expenditures; Log skew normal distribution; Marginalized models; Semicontinuous data; Two part model; Weight loss intervention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LOG SKEW NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MARGINALIZED TWO PART MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBESITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VETERAN; WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84908890417     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6263     Document Type: Article

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