meps

Subsample of the 2012 MEPS data, collected and published by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Data sets used in the book Marra and Radice (2025, ISBN:9781032973111) "Copula Additive Distributional Regression Using R", for illustrating the fitting of various joint (and univariate) regression models, with several types of covariate effects, in the presence of equations' errors association.

Giampiero Marra

GJRM.data

Data Sets for Copula Additive Distributional Regression Using R

meps function

<code>meps</code> is a 10638 row data frame with the following columns:
<dl><dt>general</dt>
<dd>General health: 1 excellent, 2 very good, 3 good, 4 fair, 5 poor.</dd><dt>mental</dt>
<dd>Mental health (as above).</dd><dt>bmi</dt>
<dd>Body mass index.</dd><dt>income</dt>
<dd>Income.</dd><dt>age</dt>
<dd>Age.</dd><dt>gender</dt>
<dd>Male 1, Female 0.</dd><dt>ethnicity</dt>
<dd>1 white, 2 black, 3 native american, 4 others.</dd><dt>education</dt>
<dd>Education in years.</dd><dt>region</dt>
<dd>1 Northeast, 2 Midwest, 3 South, 4 West.</dd><dt>hypertension</dt>
<dd>Equal to 1 if hypertension present and 0 otherwise.</dd><dt>hyperlipidemia</dt>
<dd>Equal to 1 if hyperlipidemia present and 0 otherwise.</dd><dt>dvisit</dt>
<dd>Number of doctor (physicians) visits.</dd><dt>ndvisit</dt>
<dd>Number of non doctor visits (non-physician providers).</dd><dt>dvexpend</dt>
<dd>Expenditure on doctor visits.</dd><dt>ndvexpend</dt>
<dd>Expenditure on non doctor visits.</dd></dl>

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MEPS: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (year 2012) — meps

<code>meps</code> is a 10638 row data frame with the following columns:
<dl>

<dt>general</dt>
<dd>General health: 1 excellent, 2 very good, 3 good, 4 fair, 5 poor.</dd>

<dt>mental</dt>
<dd>Mental health (as above).</dd>

<dt>bmi</dt>
<dd>Body mass index.</dd>

<dt>income</dt>
<dd>Income.</dd>

<dt>age</dt>
<dd>Age.</dd>

<dt>gender</dt>
<dd>Male 1, Female 0.</dd>

<dt>ethnicity</dt>
<dd>1 white, 2 black, 3 native american, 4 others.</dd>

<dt>education</dt>
<dd>Education in years.</dd>

<dt>region</dt>
<dd>1 Northeast, 2 Midwest, 3 South, 4 West.</dd>

<dt>hypertension</dt>
<dd>Equal to 1 if hypertension present and 0 otherwise.</dd>

<dt>hyperlipidemia</dt>
<dd>Equal to 1 if hyperlipidemia present and 0 otherwise.</dd>

<dt>dvisit</dt>
<dd>Number of doctor (physicians) visits.</dd>

<dt>ndvisit</dt>
<dd>Number of non doctor visits (non-physician providers).</dd>

<dt>dvexpend</dt>
<dd>Expenditure on doctor visits.</dd>

<dt>ndvexpend</dt>
<dd>Expenditure on non doctor visits.</dd>



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meps: MEPS: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (year 2012)

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