Modeling Cost and Expenditure for Healthcare

Encyclopedia of Health Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 299-305

  Manning, W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox; Generalized linear models; Healthcare costs; Log OLS; Model selection; OLS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988492532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-375678-7.00713-6     Document Type: Chapter

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