A quentitative model for the projection of health expenditure.
- Author:
Han Joong KIM
;
Young Doo LEE
;
Chung Mo NAM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Quantitative model;
Projected;
Health expenditure
- MeSH:
Health Care Costs;
Health Expenditures*
- From:Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
1991;24(1):29-36
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A multiple regression analysis using ordinary least square (OLS) is frequently used for the projection of healt expenditure as well as for the identification of factors affecting health care costs. Data for the analysis often have mixed characteristics of time series and cross section. Parameters as a result of OLS estimation, in this case, are no longer the best linear unbiased estimators (BLUE) because the data do not satisfy basic assumptions of regression analysis. The study theoretically examined statistical problems induced when OLS estimation was applied with the time series cross section data. Then both the OLS regression and time series cross section regression (TSCS regression) were applied to the same empirical data. Finally, the difference in parameters between the two estimations were explained through residual analysis.
