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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Stat Theory Pract. 2012 Aug 10;6(3):428–442. doi: 10.1080/15598608.2012.695571

Table 3.

Summary statistics and cost-effectiveness analysis: Simulated data

Mean-based analysis
Treatment Cost Cost difference (95% CI) ICERmean (95% CI)
A $426 $597 (320, 897) 502 (291, 721) in NE
B $1,023
Effectiveness Effectiveness difference (95% CI)
A 5.95 1.19 (1.02, 1.36)
B 7.14
Median-based analysis
Treatment Cost Cost difference (95% CI) ICERmedian (95% CI)
A $141 $49 (−1.06, 88) 40 (−0.99, 70) in SE/NE
B $190
Effectiveness Effectiveness difference (95% CI)
A 5.92 1.21 (0.98, 1.38)
B 7.13

CI denotes confidence interval. ICER denotes incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.

See Figure 3 for the cost-effectiveness plane and CIs.

500 patients in treatment A and 500 patients in treatment B were included.