Keeping the noise down: Common random numbers for disease simulation modeling

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-406

  Stout, Natasha K ^a   Goldie, Sue J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Common random numbers; Decision analysis; Methodology; Simulation; Variance reduction techniques

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 58149200352     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-008-9067-6     Document Type: Article

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