Modeling Length of Stay in Hospital and Other Right Skewed Data: Comparison of Phase-Type, Gamma and Log-Normal Distributions
- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Value in Health
- Vol. 12 (2), 309-314
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00421.x
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