Regression tree construction by bootstrap: Model search for DRG-systems applied to Austrian health-data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>DRG-systems are used to allocate resources fairly to hospitals based on their performance. Statistically, this allocation is based on simple rules that can be modeled with regression trees. However, the resulting models often have to...

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Main Authors: Pfeiffer Karl-Peter, Kobel Conrad, Grubinger Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-02-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/10/9