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Business, Business Economics, Econometrics +11

Matrix-geometric solutions in stochastic models

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Engineering, Mathematics, Probability Theory +11

Much ado about two: reconsidering retransformation and the two-part model in health econometrics

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Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics +5

The rate and cost of hospital-acquired infections occurring in patients admitted to selected specialties of a district general hospital in England and the national burden imposed

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Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Cost-effectiveness Analysis +15

Estimation with Heteroscedastic Error Terms

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Natural Sciences, Business Economics, Econometrics +8