Managing structural uncertainty in health economic decision models: A discrepancy approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-45

  Strong, Mark ^a   Oakley, Jeremy E ^a   Chilcott, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer model; Elicitation; Health economics; Model uncertainty; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855983460     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.01014.x     Document Type: Article

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