The use of finite mixture models to estimate the distribution of the health utilities index in the presence of a ceiling effect

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 909-923

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Escobar, Michael D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0141959641     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0266476032000075985     Document Type: Article

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