robustloggamma (version 1.0-2.1)

drg2000: Length of stay, cost and AP-DRG for several hospital in Switzerland in 2000.

Description

The data refer to 70323 stays that were observed in year 2000 in a group of Swiss hospitals within a pilot study aimed at the implementation of a diagnosis-related grouping (DRG) system. DRG systems are used in modern hospital management to classify each individual stay into a group according to the patient characteristics.

Usage

data(drg2000)

Format

A data frame with 70323 observations on the following 4 variables.

LOS

numeric. Lenght of the hospitalization (LOS).

Cost

numeric. Cost of the hospitalization in Switzerland franc.

MDC

numeric. Major Diagnostic Category.

APDRG

numeric. All Patient Diagnosis Related Group.

References

Agostinelli C., Marazzi A., Yohai V.J., Randriamiharisoa A. (2016). Robust Estimation of the Generalized Loggamma Model: The R Package robustloggamma. Journal of Statistical Software, 70(7), 1-21. doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i07

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(drg2000)
str(drg2000)
# }