Table 5.

Longitudinal data analysis results for the inpatient cost paid by Medicare with death as a covariate.

		Complete Case			Two-Stage
	estimate	var (×10−3)	p-value	estimate	var (×10−3)	p-value
Start1	−0.65	4.10	< 0.0001	−0.59	2.00	< 0.0001
Start2	−0.07	0.11	< 0.0001	−0.07	0.04	< 0.0001
Start3	−0.46	3.54	< 0.0001	−0.50	2.78	< 0.0001
Diabetes	0.06	2.51	0.20	0.09	1.46	0.01
Heart	0.12	3.31	0.04	0.11	1.80	0.01
Race	0.14	2.71	0.007	0.11	1.81	0.01
γ	1.54	3.67	< 0.0001	1.57	3.59	< 0.0001
ξ	0.99	42.90	< 0.0001	0.96	30.95	< 0.0001
μ	0.78	5.92	< 0.0001	0.76	5.30	< 0.0001