Individual results may vary: Inequality-probability bounds for some health-outcome treatment effects.

ABSTRACT: While many results from the treatment-effect and related literatures are familiar and have been applied productively in health economics evaluations, other potentially useful results from those literatures have had little influence on health economics practice. With the intent of demonstrating the value and use of some of these results in health economics applications, this paper focuses on one particular class of parameters that describe probabilities that one outcome is larger or smaller than other outcomes ("inequality probabilities"). While the properties of such parameters have been exposited in the technical literature, they have scarcely been considered in informing practical questions in health evaluations. This paper shows how such probabilities can be used informatively, and desc

SUBMITTER: Mullahy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6588285 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature