medicaid | R Documentation |
Data from the 1986 Medicaid survey sponsored by the Health Care Financing Administration (USA). It can be used to illustrate generalized additive models with a log link for the number of doctor visits as a response variable. The dataset is studied in Gurmu (1997).
data(medicaid)
A data frame with 485 rows and 10 columns.
numvisits
Count of doctor office/clinic and health centre visits.
exposure
Length of observation period for ambulatory care in days.
children
Number of children in the household.
age
Age of the respondent.
income1000
Annual household income in US dollars.
access
Access to health services, 0
=Low access,
100
=High access.
pc1times1000
First principal component of three health status variables: functional limitations, acute conditions and chronic conditions.
maritalstat
Marital status, 0
=Other,
1
=Married.
sex
Gender, 1
=Female, 0
=Male.
race
Race, 0
=Other, 1
=White.
http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1997-v12.3/gurmu/
Gurmu, S.(1997). Semi-parametric estimation of hurdle regression models with an application to medicaid utilization. Journal of Applied Econometrics 12(3):225-242.
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