Estimating confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness ratios: An example from a randomized trial

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1447-1458

  Chaudhary, Mohammad A ^a   Stearns, Sally C ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAID; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAID; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030011253     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960715)15:13<1447::AID-SIM267>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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