Criticism of a hierarchical model using
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James H. Albert
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper analyses a data file of heart transplant surgeries performed in the United States over a two-year period. A Poisson/gamma exchangeable model is used to learn about the underlying death rates for 94 hospitals. There are concerns about the suitability of this hierarchical model, including t