Estimating uncertainty ranges for costs by the bootstrap procedure combined with probabilistic sensitivity analysis

Health Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 323-333

  Lord, Joanne ^a   Asante, Maxwell A ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Dyspepsia; Economic evaluation; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0032770006     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199906)8:4<323::AID-HEC431>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Review

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