Beyond the center : decentralizing the State by Burki, Shahid Javed, Perry, Guillermo E, Dillinger, William R, 1951

Table of Contents: “…Empowering mayors, hospital directors, or patients? The decentralization of health care -- 6. …”

A handbook of statistical analyses using Stata / Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Brian S. Everitt. by Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia

Table of Contents: “…Data description and simple inference: female psychiatric patients -- 3. Multiple regression: determinants of pollution in U.S. cities -- 4. …”
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Multilevel and longitudinal modeling using stata / by Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia

Table of Contents: “…The longitudinal data structure Population-averaged or marginal probabilities Random-intercept logistic regression Subject-specific vs. population-averaged relationships Maximum likelihood estimation using adaptive quadrature Empirical Bayes (EB) predictions Other approaches to clustered dichotomous data Ordinal Responses Introduction Cumulative models for ordinal responses Are antipsychotic drugs effective for patients with schizophrenia? Longitudinal data structure and graphs A proportional-odds model A random-intercept proportional-odds model A random-coefficient proportional-odds model Marginal and patient-specific probabilities Do experts differ in their grading of student essays? …”

Mobile government : an emerging direction in e-government /

Table of Contents: “….] -- 10. Mobile supported patient care / C. Fitch, C. Adams -- 11. Enabling M-government in South Africa / Blessing Maumbe, Vesper Owei, Wallace Taylor -- 12. …”

Chile health insurance issues : old age and catastrophic health costs /

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World Bank economist's forum /

Table of Contents: “…Household behavior and health: Estimating the extent of patient ignorance of the health care market / Mukesh Chawla -- Public transfers and migrants' remittances: evidence from the recent Armenian experience / Edmundo Murrugarra -- Pte.2. …”

Variational methods in statistics / Jagdish S. Rustagi. by Rustagi, Jagdish S., 1923-2014

Table of Contents: “…Miscellaneous Applications of Variational Methods in Statistics; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Applications in Reliability 8.3 Bioassay Application8.4 Approximations via Dynamic Programming; 8.5 Connections between Mathematical Programming and Statistics; 8.6 Stochastic Programming Problems; 8.7 Dynamic Programming Model of Patient Care; References; Index -- Description Variational methods in statistics.…”