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.
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- PrecisionTermReproducibility of Measurement, Measurement Consistency
- A measure of how closely repeated statistical estimates cluster together, with a more precise estimate having a narrower confidence interval.
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- Reliability AssessmentConceptReliability Testing, Reliability Evaluation
- An evaluation of the consistency and reproducibility of an instrument's results, covering internal consistency, inter-rater, and test-retest reliability.
- ReproducibilityTermResult Consistency, Independent Verifiability
- The ability of an independent party to obtain the same results as originally reported by rebuilding or re-running a model using documented methods.
- Reproducibility AssessmentTermReproducibility Check, Repeatability Evaluation
- The formal process of testing whether an independent analyst, following a model's published methods, can obtain the same results as originally reported.
- Reproducible ComputingTermReproducible Analysis, Computational Reproducibility
- A computational approach that enables analyses to be repeated and produce consistent results using the same data, methods and software environment.