Search Results - subject:"Count Data"

The Determinants of Health Care Utilization in Portugal : An Approach with Count Data Models

Cotter Salvado, João - 2008

developed an approach based on count data models. We found that demographic factors influence health care demand; unemployment …

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The chi-squared goodness-of-fit test for count-data models

Manjon, Miguel; Martinez, Oscar - In: Stata Journal 14 (2014) 4, pp. 798-816

In this article, we discuss the implementation of Andrews’s (1988a, Journal of Econometrics 37: 135–156; 1988b, Econometrica 56: 1419–1453) chisquared goodness-of-fit test as a postestimation command. The new command chi2gof reports the test statistic, its degrees of freedom, and its p-value....

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Measuring the effects of reducing subsidies for private insurance on public expenditure for health care

Cheng, Terence Chai - In: Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014) C, pp. 159-179

This paper investigates the effects of reducing subsidies for private health insurance on public sector expenditure for hospital care. An econometric framework using simultaneous equation models is developed to analyse the interrelated decisions on the intensity and type of health care use and...

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Unveiling Participant Level Determinants of Unit Non-Response in Business Tendency Surveys

Bannert, Matthias; Dibiasi, Andreas - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2014

data models to explain non-response count. Our models include weighted count data regressions as well as a two part hurdle … characteristics by information such as valuation of business tendency surveys or perceived response burden. We use different count …

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Nonparametric tests for panel count data with unequal observation processes

Li, Yang; Zhao, Hui; Sun, Jianguo; Kim, KyungMann - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 73 (2014) C, pp. 103-111

Nonparametric comparison for panel count data is discussed. For the situation, most available approaches require that … treatment groups. The method applies to both univariate and multivariate panel count data. In addition, the asymptotic normality … and in particular for sparsely distributed data. They are applied to a set of panel count data arising from a skin cancer …

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Testing for complementarities among countable strategies

Miravete, Eugenio - In: Empirical Economics 46 (2014) 4, pp. 1521-1544

considered strategic complements or substitutes. In order to do so, I present a multivariate count data regression model that is …

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Sports and cultural habits by gender: An application using count data models

Muñiz, Cristina; Rodríguez, Plácido; Suárez, María J. - In: Economic Modelling 36 (2014) C, pp. 288-297

, we apply count data models to estimate the frequency of sports practice and cultural attendance, both defined in the …

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On the zero-modified poisson model: Bayesian analysis and posterior divergence measure

Conceição, Katiane; Andrade, Marinho; Louzada, Francisco - In: Computational Statistics 29 (2014) 5, pp. 959-980

fitting count data which shows any modification related to the frequency of zero. However, some loss may occur when we have …

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Lights, camera, legal action! The effectiveness of red light cameras on collisions in Los Angeles

Wong, Timothy - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 69 (2014) C, pp. 165-182

This study estimates the effect of red light cameras (henceforth cameras) on collisions under the Los Angeles Automated Photo Enforcement Program that ran from 2006 to 2011. To control for selection bias and unobservables, a data set is constructed such that intersections with cameras are...

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Location choices of newly created establishments: Spatial patterns at the aggregate level

Buczkowska, Sabina; de Lapparent, Matthieu - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 68-81

characteristics of neighboring zones. Having estimated 84 nested and non-nested count data models, we found that the hurdle models are …

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