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Statistical models for the analysis of skewed healthcare cost data : a simulation study

Malehi, Amal Saki; Pourmotahari, Fatemeh; Angali, … - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 11, pp. 1-16

Skewed data is the main issue in statistical models in healthcare costs. Data transformation is a conventional method to decrease skewness, but there are some disadvantages. Some recent studies have employed generalized linear models (GLMs) and Cox proportional hazard regression as alternative...

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What drives out-of pocket health expenditures of private households? : empirical evidence from the Austrian household budget survey

Sanwald, Alice; Theurl, Engelbert - 2014

Out-of-pocket health expenditures (OOPHE) are a substantial source of health care financing even in health care systems with an established role of prepaid financing. The empirical analysis of OOPHE is challenging, because they are fixed in an interaction with other sources of health care...

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Cost-offsets of prescription drug expenditures : data analysis via a copula-based bivariate dynamic hurdle model

Deb, Partha; Trivedi, Pravin K.; Zimmer, David M. - In: Health economics 23 (2014) 10, pp. 1242-1259

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The demand for medical care services : evidence from Kuwait based on households' out-of-pocket expenses

Burney, Nadeem A.; Al-Enezi, Mohammed; Al-Musallam, Nadia; … - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 28/30, pp. 2636-2650

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Predicting hospital costs for patients receiving renal replacement therapy to inform an economic evaluation

Li, Bernadette; Cairns, John A.; Fotheringham, James; … - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 17 (2016) 6, pp. 659-668

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Medical expenditure in urban China : a quantile regression analysis

Zhao, Jianmei; Zhong, Hai - In: International journal of health economics and management 15 (2015) 4, pp. 387-406

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Empirical health economics : selected aspects of health care financing and the production of health

Sanwald, Alice - 2014

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Panel survey estimation of the impact of urbanization in china : does level of urbanization affect healthcare expenditure, utilization or healthcare seeking behavior?

Shi, Lu; Smit, Ellen; Luck, Jeff - In: The Chinese economy : translations and studies 54 (2021) 3, pp. 145-156

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Health insurance and Out-of-Pocket health care expenditure in Kenya

Kamba, Urbanus Kioko - In: Journal of economics & management 44 (2022) 1, pp. 38-63

Abstract Aim/purpose - The aim of this study was to estimate the effect of health insurance on Out-of-Pocket (OOP) health care expenditure in Kenya. It is informed by persistence in the challenges of access and utilization of quality and affordable health care services. Previously, researchers...

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Correcting the bias in the Practitioner Black-Scholes method

Yin, Yun; Moffatt, Peter G. - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 12 (2019) 4, pp. 1-12

apply the smearing technique in order to correct this bias. An alternative means of implementing the PBS approach is to use …) standard PBS gives biased option values, both in-sample and out-of-sample; (2) using standard (log-linear) PBS with smearing … PBS. We are led to conclude that, of the range of possible approaches to implementing PBS, log-linear PBS with smearing is …

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