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Mean bias assumes a true net benefit of £1000 at £20,000 per quality-adjusted life-year cost-effectiveness threshold and 95% confidence interval (CI) coverage versus cluster size (i.e., number of individuals per cluster). The total number of clusters is fixed at 10. PQL, penalized quasi likelihood; ml, maximum likelihood; reml, restricted maximum likelihood estimation.
