Two-stage nonparametric bootstrap sampling with shrinkage correction for clustered data

Stata Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 141-164

  Ng, Edmond S W ^a   Grieve, Richard ^a   Carpenter, James R ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Cost effectiveness; Health economics; Shrinkage correction; St0288; Tsb; Tsbceprob; Two stage nonparametric bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875654680     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1301300111     Document Type: Article

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