Confounding and missing data in cost-effectiveness analysis: comparing different methods

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Table 4 Variance parameter estimates

The parameters controlling the variance of effectiveness and the dispersion of the positive costs in the Bayesian model.
^aParameters $σ_{E, \cdot, \cdot}^{2}$ control the variance of the effectiveness measure, and parameters τ _·,· (inverse of variance-to-mean ratio) the dispersion of the positive costs in the Bayesian model. Parameter θ is a generic notation representing one of the parameters $σ_{E, \cdot, \cdot}^{2}$ or τ _·,·.
^bThe point estimates are posterior expectations $E [θ | d]$ and also 95% credible intervals (CI) are presented

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