의료이용도에 대한 인구학적 변수의 효과분석의 방법

Analysis of the Effects of Demographic Variables on Health Care Services Using the Spline Regression

Demographic variables have a great deal of impact on the utilization of health services. In this paper, the use of segmented polinomials is shown to be superior to the simple use of dummy variables and simple polinomials in explaining differences in health care utilization with respect to sex and age differences.