We review statistical methods for analysing healthcare resource use and costs, their ability
to address skewness, excess zeros, multimodality and heavy right tails, and their ease for …

Background: Given the characteristics of health care expenditure/cost data–a mass of
observations at zero, and skewed positive expenditures, various alternative estimators have …

Objective: Where patient level data are available on health care costs, it is natural to use
statistical analysis to describe the differences in cost between alternative treatments. Health …

This article addresses and challenges some common perceptions in the statistical
assessment of costs and cost‐effectiveness in health economics. Cost data typically exhibit …

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the
availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric …

Background: Econometric modeling of healthcare costs and expenditures has become an
important component of decision-making across a wide array of real-world settings …

The statistical analysis of cost-effectiveness data is becoming increasingly important within
health and medical research. Statistical Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Data provides a …

Objective: Choosing an appropriate method for regression analyses of cost data is
problematic because it must focus on population means while taking into account the …

Recently, commentators have suggested that the distributional form of cost data should be
explicitly modelled to gain efficiency in estimating the population mean. We perform a series …

According to the most traditional economic evaluation manuals, all “relevant” costs should
be included in the economic analysis, taking into account factors such as the patient …