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Surgical: institutional ranking

This example considers mortality rates in 12 hospitals performing cardiac surgery in babies. The data are shown below.

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The number of deaths tex2html_wrap_inline2755 for hospital i are modelled as a binary response variable with `true' failure probability tex2html_wrap_inline2763 :

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Andrew E Long
Tue Jun 8 09:17:20 EDT 1999