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I was really impressed by the very smooth process through which my paper on cost-effectiveness analysis in the presence of structural zero costs (which I’ve already mentioned for example here and here; the related R package is described here) has gone in Statistics in Medicine.

The review process was quick and helpful (at least for one of the referees and the editor $-$ the other referee was kind of not very helpful at all). More importantly, thanks to a recent agreement that UCL have signed with various publishers, the paper can be published in open access $-$ the final version is freely available here.

The only thing I’m not quite completely sure I’m happy about is this: like many journals, SiM has a LaTeX template that you can use while preparing your manuscript. The draft version looks quite neat. But then, when they produce the final version, the maths s look more like those obtained using an old version of MS Word. Now, I can see that not everybody uses LaTeX, but once they go to the trouble of re-typesetting the accepted papers anyway, I don’t see why they don’t do it in LaTeX (which would look much better!). 

But I may be missing some trivial point here. In fact, I was talking to somebody from Wiley earlier today, but I forgot to ask…

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