## Abstract This paper is concerned with the problem of estimating the demand for health care with panel data. A random effects model is specified within a semiparametric Bayesian approach using a Dirichlet process prior. This results in a very flexible distribution for both the random effects and
Estimating with incomplete count data A Bayesian approach
✍ Scribed by Elías Moreno; Javier Girón
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 648 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-3758
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