As I anticipated earlier, we’re now able to open registration for our Summer time College in Florence (I used to be ready for UCL to arrange the registration system and thought it might take for much longer than it truly did $-$ so effectively executed UCL!).
We’ll in all probability have a couple of adjustments right here and there within the timetable $-$ we’re pondering of introducing some new matters and I feel I will definitely merge a few my intro lectures, to go away a while for these…
Nothing is mounted but and we’re within the means of deliberating all of the adjustments $-$ however I will submit as quickly as now we have a clearer plan for the revised timetable.
This is the advert (which I’ve despatched out to some related mailing listing, additionally).
Summer time faculty: Bayesian strategies in well being economics
Date: 4-8 June 2018
COURSE ORGANISERS: Gianluca Baio, Chris Jackson, Nicky Welton, Mark Sturdy, Anna Heath
OVERVIEW:
This summer time faculty is meant to supply an introduction to Bayesian evaluation and MCMC strategies utilizing R and MCMC sampling software program (akin to OpenBUGS and JAGS), as utilized to cost-effectiveness evaluation and typical fashions utilized in well being financial evaluations. We’ll current a spread of modelling methods for cost-effectiveness evaluation in addition to latest methodological developments for the evaluation of the worth of data.
The course is meant for well being economists, statisticians, and determination modellers within the apply of Bayesian modelling and can be primarily based on a combination of lectures and laptop practicals, though the emphasis can be on examples of utilized evaluation: software program and code to hold out the analyses can be offered. Individuals are inspired to deliver their very own laptops for the practicals.
We will assume a primary data of normal strategies in well being economics and a few familiarity with a spread of chance distributions, regression evaluation, Markov fashions and random-effects meta-analysis. Nevertheless, statistical ideas are reviewed within the context of utilized well being financial evaluations within the lectures.
