On the equivalence of some medical cost estimators with censored data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4520-4530

  Zhao, Hongwei ^a   Bang, Heejung ^b   Wang, Hongkun ^c   Pfeifer, Philip E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Cost analysis; Inverse probability weighting; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35148881504     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2882     Document Type: Article

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