Jacobs, Rowena; Smith, Peter - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2004
places Trusts into one of four categories: from three stars, awarded to Trusts with the highest levels of performance to zero … stars, awarded to Trusts showing the poorest levels of performance. We examine the descriptive statistics for the various … zero star Trusts as the reference category and then least squares to fit a linear model to each of the variables in the …