Publications by R | Gianluca Baio
My thoughts on the R-HTA workshops
Last Friday on Monday, we held our online R-HTA workshop. We will discuss the feedback and agree on ways forward in the consortium Scientific Committee soon, but I thought I’d write down some personal reactions to the very interesting discussions — of course, what come out of all this eventually may well be very different to my synthesis! Sti...
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EVPPI in Windows
A couple of colleagues have alerted us to some issues with the BCEA function evppi, under MS Windows. Basically, it seemed as if under MS Windows and with R 4.0.0 (which is a recent, though not the most recent release of R) the evppi function would break, when trying to make the analysis based on INLA (and the work discussed here). In particular,...
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What if there’s no censoring?…
Philip Cooney has alerted me to a slight inconsistency in survHE. Basically, he was trying to work in a setting where the data contain no censoring, using the HMC/rstan models generated by survHE. All works OK when using some of the models implemented, but failed when trying to fit the Gamma, Generalised Gamma and Generalised F. The reason for th...
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The duke of hazard
More changes to survHE. Earlier this week, I gave a talk at the Virtual Ispor US conference (our panel was W11). In preparation for the panel (and other things I was doing anyway), I got to talk to colleagues and thought a bit more of how survival modelling in HTA is kind of weird and “special”… In particular, I realised how survHE doesn’...
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