In Japan, medical expenditures have been increasing rapidly and exceeded 42 trillion yen in fiscal year 2015. It is expected that medical expenditures will continue to increase due to aging population ...

The LIFEREG procedure in SAS/STAT software fits parametric models to failure time or other kinds of duration data that may be right-, left-, or interval-censored. The models for the response variable ...

Using a simplified approach developed by Severini and Tripathi (2001), we calculate the semiparametric efficiency bound for the finite-dimensional parameters of censored linear regression models with ...

Using a contingent valuation survey, we elicit Swedish households' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid power outages. In the study respondents are asked to state their WTP for avoiding nine different ...