A spatiotemporal quantile regression model for emergency department expenditures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 2559-2575

  Neelon, Brian ^a   Li, Fan ^b   Burgette, Lane F ^c   Benjamin Neelon, Sara E ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric Laplace distribution; Bayesian inference; Conditionally autoregressive prior; Medical expenditures; Quantile regression; Spatiotemporal model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL COST; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PREDICTION; REFERENCE DATABASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL QUANTILE REGRESSION MODEL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84933574618     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6480     Document Type: Article

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