The phrase "a marginal cost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in economic discussions to refer to the additional cost incurred when producing one more unit of a good or service.
Example: "When analyzing the production process, it is essential to consider a marginal cost to determine the optimal output level."
Alternatives: "an incremental cost" or "a variable cost".
The licence fee wouldn't be any cheaper, it would be a marginal cost".
Much of its value will be delivered to each additional consumer at a marginal cost of nearly zero.
Mr. Dorf says the separate manufacturing process adds only a "marginal cost" to each bag, which is priced around $3, similar to other brands of flour.
Between delivering copies of a film to theatres and orchestrating ad campaigns, theatrical releases can cost a distributor millions of dollars; getting a film onto iTunes has a marginal cost of next to nothing.
If, for example, an item has a marginal cost of $1.00 and a normal selling price is $2.00, the firm selling the item might wish to lower the price to $1.10 if demand has waned.
"It is based on financial institutions' average cost of funds, which moves relatively sluggishly compared to a marginal cost of funds, which is what Libor would be more associated with," Mr. Maher said.
The uncertainty analysis suggests that the probability that capecitabine has a marginal cost-effectiveness that is better than £20 000 per QALY gained is estimated to be approximately 0.998 when compared to 5-FU/LV. Figure 3 presents a marginal cost-effectiveness plane describing the marginal costs and QALYs gained for FOLFOX4 vs the de Gramont 5-FU/LV regimen.
The probability that FOLFOX has a marginal cost-effectiveness that is better than £20 000 per QALY gained is estimated to be approximately 0.997 when compared to 5-FU/LV.
At the request of the HLTF Working Group (Constraints to Scaling Up and Costs), two technical teams were established to provide costing estimates; one based on a normative approach and one based on a country based model using a marginal costing approach.
Using a marginal costing approach to estimate healthcare costs due to ischemic stroke is important in the Medicare population compared to using total average costing techniques, in order to accurately attribute healthcare costs to stroke.
Accurate estimates of cost of care for conditions, such as stroke, that are common in older patients with a high rate of comorbid conditions require the use of a marginal costing approach.
