Recently, a number of papers have brought up the issue of how to make cost-effectiveness (CE) studies stochastic, i.e. how to obtain confidence intervals for CE ratios. In this note we present a bootstrap procedure for estimating bias-corrected confidence intervals for CE ratios. The bootstrap proce
Confidence intervals for cost/effectiveness ratios
β Scribed by Peter Wakker; Dr. Marc P. Klaassen
- Book ID
- 112097422
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 752 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
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