Bootstrap confidence intervals for medical costs with censored observations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 3365-3376

  Jiang, Hongyu ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap method; Censored data; Cost data; Skewed distribution

Indexed keywords

EPTIFIBATIDE; PLACEBO;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS;

EID: 7744238303     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1556     Document Type: Article

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