Modelling Correlated Healthcare Costs with Many Zeros: A Two-Part Random Effects Approach
Healthcare costs typically exhibit a substantial proportion of zero values together with very large positive values. For example, healthy people have no costs recorded in a given year whereas certain individuals may incur large medical expenses that increase tremendously by disease severity. Moreove...
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Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27510 |