Zhou, Junwen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6812-0944
Williams, Claire
Keng, Mi Jun
Wu, Runguo
Mihaylova, Borislava
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Technology Assessment Programme (17/140/02)
NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London (NIHR203330)
Article History
Accepted: 19 September 2023
First Online: 10 November 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: This study is supported by a research grant from UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) (17/140/02). Further support from the National Institute for Health Research Barts Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203330) is acknowledged. The study was designed and analysed independently of all funders and the views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
: JZ and BM were responsible for the initial design. JZ drafted the manuscript and developed the R script with the help of BM. BM, CW, MJK and RW revised the paper critically for intellectual content. All the authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
: All needed data and materials are presented in the manuscript or the supporting information. No extra data will be needed. Software code for implementing the illustrative example using R is provided.