An Insurance Type Model for the Health Cost of Cold Housing

This paper introduces a substantive problem, namely the link between fuel poverty and excess winter morbidity amongst older people, and shows how the GAMLSS suite of programs (www.gamlss.com) can be used to provide a very flexible method of modelling both the number of hospital admissions and the c...

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Main Authors: Robert Gilchrist, Alim Kamara, Janet Rudge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics Portugal 2009-04-01
Series:Revstat Statistical Journal
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Online Access:https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/73