Going Beyond the Mean in Healthcare Cost Regressions: a Comparison of Methods for Estimating the Full Conditional Distribution
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healthcare costs; heavy tails; counterfactual distributions; quasi-Monte Carlo;All these keywords.
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- C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
- C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ECM-2014-10-03 (Econometrics)
- NEP-HEA-2014-10-03 (Health Economics)
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