Pulling cost-effectiveness analysis up by its bootstraps: A non-parametric approach to confidence interval estimation

Health Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 327-340

  Briggs, Andrew H ^a   Wonderling, David E ^b   Mooney, Christopher Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence interval; Incremental cost effectiveness ratio

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030853766     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199707)6:4<327::AID-HEC282>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Conference Paper

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