R: Results from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Study
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Results from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Study
Description
This file was originally prepared by Anders Corr (corr@fas.harvard.edu) who
reports on December 8, 2007 that the resulting numbers closely
match with those reported in the published article. It was later modified by
Jason Bryer (jason@bryer.org) to an R data object to be included in this
package. See http://imai.princeton.edu/research/pscore.html for more
information
Format
a data frame with 9,708 observations of 12 variables.
Author(s)
United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Source
http://imai.princeton.edu/research/pscore.html
References
National Center For Health Services Research, 1987. National
Medical Expenditure Survey. Methods II. Questionnaires and data
collection methods for the household survey and the Survey of
American Indians and Alaska Natives. National Center for Health
Services Research and Health Technology Assessment.
Imai, K., & van Dyk, D.A. (2004). Causal Inference With General
Treatment Regimes: Generalizing the Propensity Score, Journal of the
American Statistical Association, 99(467), pp. 854-866.
Elizabeth Johnson, E., Dominici, F., Griswold, M., & Zeger, S.L. (2003).
Disease cases and their medical costs attributable to smoking: An
analysis of the national medical expenditure survey. Journal of
Econometrics, 112.