Specification of the utility function in discrete choice experiments

Value in Health

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 297-301

  Van Der Pol, Marjon ^a   Currie, Gillian ^b   Kromm, Seija ^c   Ryan, Mandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

discrete choice experiments; specification of utility function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CASE STUDY; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIFICATION OF UTILITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; SPECIFICATION OF UTILITY FUNCTION;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84896323360     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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