The author reviews statistical methods commonly applied in economic evaluations that rely on individual patient-level data. The paper includes a review of foundational concepts, unique characteristics of health economic data, and methods developed to address them. The paper then highlights issues that should be considered in the interpretation of findings from economic evaluations.

Deregulation policy has caused some changes in the concepts of power system reliability assessment. This paper deals with generation reliability evaluation in perfect competition power market using market economic concepts and its dynamic. Also, because of power markets and generators’ forced outages stochastic behavior, Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is used in this research. Generation reliabil...

ABSTRACT: It is shown that the "new economy" was propagated as an economic revolution. The paper explores the processes through which "E-Business" was conceived as an economic revolution rather than yet another technological innovation. Drawing on research on popular management concepts, it is suggested that proponents of "E-Business" were partly successful because they effectively used mechani...