Publications by Gianluca Baio
You stole my idea!
Earlier today, Gareth has showed me a recent, interesting paper by Michael Sweeting (and colleagues). In the paper, Micheal et al describe their work on a R package to extend on the framework of the Continual Reassessment Method (the original paper by John O’Quigley and colleagues is here), which is a particular design that can be used in do...
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Le Tour
Today I’ve given the talk on the model for structural zeros and the related R package BCEs0 for the third time in three weeks (this time it was at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).Le Tour is going quite well, I think $-$ in all three occasions, the talk has been well received. What I think is also interesting is that each t...
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R2jags & BCEA (& the examples from BMHE)
Recently, Yu-Sung Su and Masanao Yajima, the developers of the R2jags package, have released a new version (the current one is 0.03-11). As far as I understand it, one of the main changes is that since the update, R2jags no longer depends on the R2WinBUGS package (although it “imports” it). The consequence of this is that you can no longe...
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Fellow me
Last summer I have applied for a NIHR Research Methods fellowship. Earlier this week the results have come out and they have liked my proposal, which is of course great news. The idea of this project is to critically evaluate the stepped wedge design (SWD) in clinical trials. This is a relatively new design, effectively an extension of cross-o...
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Imperialstan
Despite the map here, I’m not going to talk about yet another fraction of the former Soviet Empire which is taken the form of a people’s republic, possibly with witty British Ambassadors.In fact, I’m going to talk about the Stan workshop that I have be to, earlier today, which was held at Imperial College. My friend Lea organised it and Mik...
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BCEs0 version 1.1 on CRAN
As I was responding to the points raised by two referees and the editor on my paper on cost-effectiveness with structural zeros (the preliminary version was here, while I have presenting it in a few talks and discussed it here, here, here and here).I have to say most of the comments I received made a lot of sense and were extremely helpful. In...
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Newest release of BCEA
Very shortly, I’ll upload the newest release of BCEA, my R package to post-process the output of a (Bayesian) health economic model and produce systematic summaries (such as graphs and tables) for a full economic evaluation and probabilistic sensitivity analysis (more posts on this are, in random order, here, here, here and here).I’ve made c...
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Open access
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 r...
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Porn capital of the porn nation
The other day I was having a quick look to the newspapers and I stumbled on this article. Apparently, Pornhub (a website whose mission should be pretty clear) have analysed the data on their customers and found out that the town of Ware (Hertfordshire) has more demand for online porn than any other UK town. According to PornHub, a Ware residen...
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BMHE & BCEA get a shout in published paper
Panagiotis Petrou has posted a link to a recent paper of his, which develops a cost-effectiveness analysis of a drug used as a second-line treatment of renal carcinoma. The analysis is based on a Bayesian Markov model. But (from an incredibly self-involved point of view, I realise!), more importantly, they say on page 132:“The model was synthe...
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