Rapid Approximation of Confidence Intervals for Markov Process Decision Models: Applications in Decision Support Systems

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 301-312

  Cher, Daniel J ^b   Lenert, Leslie A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0031178431     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040301     Document Type: Article

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