Estimating mean total costs in the presence of censoring: A comparative assessment of methods

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1229-1242

  Young, Tracey A ^a,b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CARIDE REGRESSION ESTIMATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HISTORY; IGNORING CENSORING; IGNORING THE CENSORED CASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIN REGRESSION METHOD WITH COST HISTORY; LIN REGRESSION METHOD WITH UNKNOWN COST HISTORY; LIN WITH KNOWN COST HISTORY; LIN WITHOUT COST HISTORY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; WEIGHTED COST METHOD WITH COST HISTORY; WEIGHTED COST METHOD WITHOUT COST HISTORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 29144436367     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11707690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00019053-200523120-00007     Document Type: Article

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