Accounting for uncertainty in health economic decision models by using model averaging.

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Published in J R Stat Soc Ser A Stat Soc on April 01, 2009

Authors

Christopher H Jackson1, Simon G Thompson, Linda D Sharples

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1: Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit Cambridge, UK.

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