How sensitive are cost-effectiveness analyses to choice of parametric distributions?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 416-423

  Thompson, Simon G ^a   Nixon, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness analysis; Distributional assumptions; Parametric methods; Robustness; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BACK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAYS;

EID: 22544481117     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X05276862     Document Type: Article

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