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Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2013 Dec;32(6):10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.05.002. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.05.002

Table 1.

Health Care Cost and Population

Definitions:

x_t average health care costs of person of personal characteristics t (column average)
n_t sum of people of with personal characteristics t (column sum)
x_h average health care costs of person of health status h (row average)
n_h sum of people of health status h (row sum)
x̄ overall average health care costs
n total population