The way that you do it? An elaborate test of procedural invariance of TTO, using a choice-based design

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 491-500

  Attema, Arthur E ^a   Brouwer, Werner B F ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constant proportional tradeoffs; Discounting; Procedural invariance; Time tradeoff method

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STUDY DESIGN; VARIANCE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865595863     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: 16187601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-011-0318-y     Document Type: Article

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