Bayesian variable selection using cost-adjusted BIC, with application to cost-effective measurement of quality of health care

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS207zbMath1166.62082arXiv0908.2313MaRDI QIDQ2270666

Dimitris Fouskakis, Ioannis Ntzoufras, David Draper

Publication date: 29 July 2009

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2313

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian information criterion (BIC)Laplace approximationcost-benefit analysisinput-output analysisquality of health carecost-adjusted BICMCMC model composition (\(MC^3\))reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) methodssickness at hospital admission

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains (65C40)

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