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. 2018 Feb 6;51(2):83–91. doi: 10.3961/jpmph.17.050

Table 3.

Parameter estimates of segmented regression analysis models of the effects of TSL implementation on inequality in healthcare financing (Kakwani index) in Iran, 1988-2014 (year of intervention, 2010)

Models Explanatory variables
Goodness of fit
Residual tests
Intercept Tbefore CCafter TCafter lGDP IMR PoU60 InR F R-2 RMST ST NO DW B-P
A -0.02 0.01 0.01 -0.01 0.00 0.00 -0.06 0.00 5.95 0.69 0.01 -5.20 0.78 2.16 0.37
p-value 0.95 0.33 0.67 0.53 0.98 0.91 0.17 0.13 <0.001 <0.001 0.54
B 0.02 0.01 0.01 -0.01 - 0.000 -0.06 0.00 7.31 0.59 0.01 -5.20 0.78 2.16 0.38
p-value 0.94 0.32 0.62 0.37 - 0.91 0.16 0.12 <0.001 <0.001 0.54
C 0.48 0.01 0.01 -0.01 - - -0.06 0.00 9.20 0.61 0.01 -5.19 0.78 2.15 0.34
p-value 0.57 0.06 0.55 0.27 - - 0.14 0.11 <0.001 <0.001 0.52
D -0.07 0.00 0.01 0.00 - - - 0.00 31.17 0.73 0.01 -4.77 0.81 1.97 0.56
p-value <0.001 <0.001 0.36 0.70 - - - 0.05 <0.001 <0.001 0.45
E -0.05 0.00 0.01 0.00 - - - - 11.68 0.55 0.01 -3.37 0.84 1.62 0.33
p-value <0.001 <0.001 0.41 0.81 - - - - <0.001 <0.001 0.56

TSL, Targeted Subsidies Law; Tbefore, time trend before intervention; CCafter, intercept changes after intervention; TCafter, trend changes after the intervention; lGDP, log gross domestic product; IMR, infant mortality rate; PoU60, proportion of the population 60 years old; InR, inflation rate; RMST, restricted mean survival time; DF, stationary of residuals with the Dicky-Fuler test; NO, normality of residuals with the Shapiro-Wilk W test; DW, Durbin-Watson test for autocorrelation; B-P, Breusch-Pagan test for heteroscedasticity.