BAYESIAN NEGATIVE BINOMIAL LOGIT HURDLE AND ZERO-INFLATED MODEL FOR CHARACTERIZING SMOKING INTENSITY



Medical malpractice claim risk in emergency departments

Medical malpractice claims are a Body major problem for emergency physicians and for the health system which must be addressed in a rational and effective fashion: claim analysis seems the best way to identify risk factors and risk areas and to elaborate risk management recommendations.The Emergency Department (ED) is one of the areas at higher ris

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GMM Estimators for Binary Spatial Models in R

Despite the huge availability of software to estimate cross-sectional spatial models, there are only few functions to estimate models dealing with Nail File spatial limited dependent variable.This paper fills this gap introducing the new R package spldv.The package is based on generalized methods of moment (GMM) estimators and includes a series of

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