Dictionary
The Dictionary provides concise definitions of health economics terms, arranged alphabetically for quick reference. Use it to understand unfamiliar terminology or confirm the meaning of a specific term.
C
- Cumulative HazardIntegrated Hazard, Accumulated Hazard
- The total accumulated risk of an event by a given point in time, found by integrating the instantaneous hazard rate up to that point.
N
- Nelson-Aalen EstimatorNelson-Aalen, Cumulative Hazard Estimator
- A non-parametric method for estimating the cumulative hazard function from censored data, closely related to the Kaplan-Meier estimator.
- Non-Mixture Cure ModelNon-Mixture Cure Rate Model, Bounded Cumulative Hazard Cure Model
- An alternative cure model structure formulating survival directly in terms of the cured fraction without explicitly splitting the population into two subgroups.