hospcosts | R Documentation |
Data for the analysis in Beath (2018), previously analysed in Marazzi and Yohai (2004), Cantoni and Ronchetti (2006) and Heritier et al (2009). The data is for 100 patients hospitalised at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois in Lausanne, Switzerland for "medical back problems" (APDRG 243).
hospcosts
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 9 variables.
id
patient id
costs
cost of stay in Swiss francs
los
length of stay in days
adm
admission type, 0 = planned, 1 = emergency
ins
insurance type, 0 = regular, 1 = private
age
age in years
sex
sex, 0 = female, 1 = male
dest
discharge destination, 0 = another health institution, 1 = home
loglos
log of length of stay
Heritier et al (2009)
Cantoni, E., & Ronchetti, E. (2006). A robust approach for skewed and heavy-tailed outcomes in the analysis of health care expenditures. Journal of Health Economics, 25(2), 198213. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.04.010
Heritier, S., Cantoni, E., Copt, S. and Victoria-Feser, M-P (2009). Robust Methods in Biostatistics. Wiley.
Marazzi, A., & Yohai, V. J. (2004). Adaptively truncated maximum likelihood regression with asymmetric errors. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 122(12), 271291. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2003.06.011
hospcosts.robustmix <- robmixglm(costs~adm+age+dest+ins+loglos+sex, family = "gamma",
data = hospcosts, cores = 1)
summary(hospcosts.robustmix)
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