我が国においては医療費の高騰が続いており、2015年度は42兆円を超えるまでになっている。人口高齢化や医療の高度化によってさらにこれらが急増することが予想されている。これに対応するためには、医療資源の効率的な利用が必要不可欠となっている。

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 can be used to perform a Tobit analysis. The Tobit model, described by Tobin (1958), is a regression model for left censored data assuming a ...

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 ...

The purpose of this article is to inform criminological researchers about tobit regression, an alternative regression model that deserves more attention in this field. Tobit regression is intended for ...

This article reports on a study that examined the saving behaviour of farmers in southern Ghana, using a sample of 100 citrus farmers. Probit and Tobit models were used in determining the factors that ...