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Tweedie distributions for fitting semicontinuous health care utilization cost data

BACKGROUND: The statistical analysis of health care cost data is often problematic because these data are usually non-negative, right-skewed and have excess zeros for non-users. This prevents the use of linear models based on the Gaussian or Gamma distribution. A common way to counter this is the us...

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Autor principal: Kurz, Christoph F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29258428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0445-y

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