Training and Conducting Economic Evaluation in Public Health
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In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] TRAINING AND CONDUCTING ECONOMIC EVALUATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH
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