Empirical Bayes methods for estimating hospital-specific mortality rates.

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• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Statistics in Medicine

• Publication date

  1994-05-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

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  DOI 10.1002/SIM.4780130902PMID 8047743
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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