Overview

Overview

A two and a half-day course focusing on the use of duration data with wide applicability to research in health economics. Econometric models of durations are used to model the length of time spent in a given state before transition to another state.  Durations may, for example, consist of time to death, time spent in a health state or free from ill-health, and time spent in hospital. Typically, standard regression based techniques are not appropriate for modelling such data and instead attention needs to be given to the choice of distribution function, the sampling scheme used to derive durations, the censored nature of duration spells and possible transitions to one of several states. Duration spells or the probability of a transition out of a state may be modelled.

For further details contact: Kerry.Atkinson@york.ac.uk