29-30 June 2020, University College London Training event (29 June): Torrington (1-19) 113 - Public Cluster, 1-19 in Torrington Place (https://goo.gl/maps/RtR3Ypug2Dq), University College London, United Kingdom Main workshop (30 June): Room G12, 1-19 in Torrington Place (https://goo.gl/maps/RtR3Ypug2Dq), University College London, United Kingdom. ... [Read more...]

Boby Mihaylova has two exciting posts available at the Health Economics Research Centre at the University of Oxford. In particular, she is looking for two R-minded researchers/analysts to develop work on disease modelling/cost-effectiveness using large individual-patients databases. In fact, I think it’s really good that they are ... [Read more...]

Our editorial on using R in HTA (I talked about it here) has finally been published in Value in Health. This is nice in the (rather long, I know…) build up to our workshop. And speaking of, we’ve already received quite a few abstracts for contributed talks — this below ... [Read more...]

As part of our R for HTA workshop, we have also prepared a kind-of-hackathon, which we are now releasing to the general public (I think “general public” is a bit pretentious, but this afternoon, I’m in the right mood for it, I think…). Participation is actually open to all (... [Read more...]

I’ve just updated the GitHub’s version of BCEA. Andrea has done, as usual, some very nice work – this time he’s mainly focussed on the graphical engine underlying the graphs produced by BCEA to post-process the outcome of the economic model. The main changes are the following: Added ... [Read more...]

As I posted recently, I’m involved in a couple of events, later this summer: our annual Summer School and the new(er) tradition of the R for HTA workshop. I have to say that I’m very happy about how things are proceeding for both of them. The summer ... [Read more...]

As I’m waiting to catch my flight back from Stockholm (where I had a rather interesting meeting discussing Bayesian network meta-analysis. But I digress…), I am browsing the news — mainly just to keep myself awake. And I find this interesting piece of news in The Guardian. It is the ... [Read more...]

Summer is really going to be busy, this year. But in a good way… In June, I’ll be at our annual summer school in Florence. This year, we have a slight change in the line-up — Nicky has decided to take a break from teaching with us, which is a ... [Read more...]

9 July 2019, University College London Training event (8 July): Torrington (1-19) B07 - Teal Room in Torrington Place, 1-19 (), University College London, United Kingdom Main workshop (9 July): Anatomy G29 J Z Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Medical Sciences and Anatomy (https://goo.gl/maps/biryoFc9CiL2), University College London, United Kingdom. Background and ... [Read more...]

After my talks in Barcelona, I have started thinking about potential improvements or changes, mostly to do in BCEA — I got some nice comments from quite a few people, some of whom were asking for some tweaks or extra facilities. Obviously, I’ve not prioritised any of those requests… But: ... [Read more...]

I have just submitted a revised version of survHE on CRAN — it should be up very shortly. This will be version 1.0.64 and its main feature is a major restructuring in the way the rstan/HMC stuff works. Basically, this is due to a change in the default C++ compiler. I ... [Read more...]

Petros and his colleagues at DARTH have organised a workshop on Decision Modeling in R, in Toronto (Canada) — the exact dates are 5-7 December 2018. Here’s Petros’ original advert We are excited to announce that the Decision Analysis in R for Technologies in Health (DARTH) workgroup, in collaboration with the ... [Read more...]

Cost-effectiveness analysis with individual level data You can do this practical either directly in BUGS, or running the scripts from R. If you are using the BUGS graphical interface, then you will need to open the relevant model files (e.g. normal-mo... [Read more...]

Cost-effectiveness analysis with individual level data You can do this practical either directly in BUGS, or running the scripts from R. If you are using the BUGS graphical interface, then you will need to open the relevant model files (e.g. normal-mo... [Read more...]

Nathan Green has alerted/invited me to another workshop aimed at increasing the use of R in Health Economics. He and I had some discussion in the past few months and especially around the time we were running our workshop back in July. The “scoping” workshop at Imperial has also ... [Read more...]

Nathan Green has alerted/invited me to another workshop aimed at increasing the use of R in Health Economics. He and I had some discussion in the past few months and especially around the time we were running our workshop back in July. The “scoping” workshop at Imperial has also ... [Read more...]

Because I have been preparing an extended presentation on (Bayesian) survival analysis in health economic evaluation, I took the opportunity to make some tweaks to survHE — nothing major, but I was aware of couple of imprecisions in the code or things I wanted to make a bit better, so while ... [Read more...]

Because I have been preparing an extended presentation on (Bayesian) survival analysis in health economic evaluation, I took the opportunity to make some tweaks to survHE — nothing major, but I was aware of couple of imprecisions in the code or things I wanted to make a bit better, so while ... [Read more...]

I was trying to find an apt image to accompany this post, but googling “sleek and shiny” mostly brought up images of women with ridiculously, well, sleek and shiny hair (and magical products to achieve just that), which has nothing to do with what I want to talk about here (... [Read more...]

I was trying to find an apt image to accompany this post, but googling “sleek and shiny” mostly brought up images of women with ridiculously, well, sleek and shiny hair (and magical products to achieve just that), which has nothing to do with what I want to talk about here (... [Read more...]