Interval estimation for the ratio in means of log-normally distributed medical costs with zero values.

DOI10.1016/S0167-9473(00)00009-8zbMath1115.62302OpenAlexW2026796770MaRDI QIDQ5940724

Wanzhu Tu, Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou

Publication date: 20 August 2001

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-9473(00)00009-8

zbMATH Keywords

Bootstrap methodsCost dataLog normalMaximum likelihoodSkewed distributionZero costs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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Uses Software

• bootstrap

Cites Work

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• Approximation Theorems of Mathematical Statistics
• Methods for Comparing the Means of Two Independent Log-Normal Samples
• Comparison of Several Independent Population Means When Their Samples Contain Log‐Normal and Possibly Zero Observations
• The bootstrap and Edgeworth expansion

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