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
- Cure ModelStatistical Cure Model, Cure-Fraction Model, Survival Cure Model
- A cure model is a survival model that represents a subgroup whose disease-related excess event risk eventually disappears while accounting for the remaining risk specified by the model.
M
- Mixture Cure ModelTwo-Component Survival Model, Incidence-Latency Model
- A cure model treating the population as a mixture of a cured fraction facing only background mortality and an uncured fraction remaining at risk.
N
- 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.