A Wald test comparing medical costs based on log-normal distributions with zero valued costs

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 2749-2761

  Tu, Wanzhu ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE COST; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG COSTS; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATIENT CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033619531     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991030)18:20<2749::AID-SIM195>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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