Statistical Inference for Costs and Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios with Censored Data

Cost-effectiveness analysis is widely conducted in the economic evaluation of new treatment options. In many clinical and observational studies of costs, data are often censored. Censoring brings challenges to both medical cost estimation and cost-effectiveness analysis. Although methods have been p...

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Main Author: Chen, Shuai
Other Authors: Zhao, Hongwei
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10963