The effect of outliers on confidence interval procedures for cost-effectiveness ratios

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 9-10, 2001, Pages 1469-1477

  Indurkhya, Alka ^a   Gardiner, Joseph C ^a   Luo, Zhehui ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HEALTH PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; SIMULATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS;

EID: 0035873828     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.683     Document Type: Article

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