The analysis of incomplete cost data due to dropout

Health Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 763-776

  Oostenbrink, Jan B ^a   Al, Maiwenn J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Censoring; Cost analysis; Dropout; Economic evaluation; EM algorithm; Missing data; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 17144396786     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.966     Document Type: Article

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