Measuring overfitting in nonlinear models: A new method and an application to health expenditures

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 75-85

  Bilger, Marcel ^a   Manning, Willard G ^b  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Copas test; Forecasting; Health expenditure; Overfitting; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SAMPLING BIAS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HEALTH EXPENDITURES; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84916880901     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3003     Document Type: Article

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