Confidence intervals or surfaces? Uncertainty on the cost-effectiveness plane

Health Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 723-740

  Briggs, Andrew ^a   Fenn, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Cost effectiveness; Ratios

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 0032408402     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1050(199812)7:8<723::aid-hec392>3.3.co;2-f     Document Type: Article

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