Some insight on censored cost estimators

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 2381-2388

  Zhao, H ^a   Cheng, Y ^b   Bang, H ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse probability weighting; Marked process; Medical cost; Redistribute to the right; Replace from the right; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANG AND TSIATIS ESTIMATOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATIVE CENSORING; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING TECHNIQUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REDISTRIBUTE TO THE RIGHT ALGORITHM; REPLACE FROM THE RIGHT ALGORITHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960556264     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4295     Document Type: Article

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