OBJECTIVE The purposes of the study were to compare the survival associated with treatment of seriously injured patients with pediatric trauma in Florida at designated trauma centers (DTCs) with nontrauma center (NCs) acute care hospitals and to evaluate differences in mortality between designated pediatric and nonpediatric trauma centers. METHODS Trauma-related inpatient hospital discharge r...

Using a sample selection induced bivariate probit model fitted to data collected from small scale, resource poor farmers in Western Oromia (Jimma, Ilu-Ababaor, Estern and Western Welega zones), I define and simulate different strategy (Pure and Mixed) scenarios. The scenarios provide the extent to which the adoption of maize technology package (HYV-seeds, fertilizers and planting methods) among...

Deprivation scales derived from multiple, typically dichotomous, indicators, are increasingly being used to measure households’ standards of living, and to complement poverty measures based on low income. We propose a type of multivariate probit model that generalizes the classical measurement model underlying the deprivation scale approach, allowing for heterogeneity and explicitly recognizing...

This paper provides a uni ed simulation-based Bayesian and non-Bayesian analysis of correlated binary data using the multivariate probit model. The posterior distribution is simulated by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, and maximum likelihood estimates are obtained by a Monte Carlo version of the E-M algorithm. Computation of Bayes factors from the simulation output is also considered. The met...

Abstract This study examines the impact of land tenure rights on adoption short- and long-term agricultural practices these income food insecurity for rural households in Burkina Faso. The bivariate probit model propensity score matching are used to analyze data collected from 4,398 households. results show that ownership permanent only increases likelihood adopting practices. In addition, shor...