Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis of medical treatments. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elias Moreno, Francisco Jose Vazquez-Polo, Miguel Angel Negrin-Hernandez.
• Authors: Moreno, Elías; Vázquez Polo, Francisco José; Negrín-Hernández, Miguel Ángel
• Contents: Health economics evaluation Introduction Conventional types of economic evaluation The variables of cost-effectiveness analysis Sources of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis Conventional tools for cost-effectiveness analysis The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio The incremental net benefit Cost-effectiveness acceptability curve Conventional subgroup analysis An outline of Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis Statistical inference in parametric models Introduction Parametric sampling models The likelihood function Likelihood sets The maximum likelihood estimator Proving consistency and asymptotic normality Reparametrization to a subparameter Parametric Bayesian models Subjective priors Conjugate priors Objective priors The predictive distribution Bayesian model selection Intrinsic priors for model selection The normal linear model Maximum likelihood estimators Bayesian estimators An outline of variable selection Statistical decision theory Introduction Elements of a decision problem Ordering rewards Lotteries The Utility function Axioms for the existence of the utility function Criticisms to the utility function Lotteries that depend on a parameter The minimax strategy The Bayesian strategy Comparison Optimal decisions in the presence of sampling information The frequentist procedure The Bayesian procedure Cost-effectiveness analysis. Optimal treatments Introduction The net benefit of a treatment Utility functions of the net benefit The utility function U Optimal treatments Interpretation of the expected utility The utility function U Optimal treatments Interpretation of the expected utility Penalizing a new treatment Parametric classes of probabilistic rewards Frequentist predictive distribution of the net bene Bayesian predictive distribution of the net benefit Statistical models for cost and effectiveness The normal-normal model The lognormal-normal model The lognormal-Bernoulli model The bivariate normal model The dependent lognormal-Bernoulli model A case study The cost-effectiveness acceptability curve for the utility function U The case of completely unknown rewards The case of parametric rewards The cost-effectiveness acceptability curve for the utility function U Comments on cost-effectiveness acceptability curve Cost-effectiveness analysis for heterogenous data Introduction Clustering Prior distributions Posterior distribution of the cluster models Examples Bayesian meta-analysis The Bayesian meta-model The likelihood of the meta-parameter and the linking distribution Properties of the linking distribution Examples Contents The predictive distribution of (c; e) conditional on a partition The unconditional predictive distribution of (c; e) The predictive distribution of the net benefit z The case of independent c and e Optimal treatments Examples Subgroup cost-effectiveness analysis Introduction The data and the Bayesian model The independent normal-normal model The normal-normal model The lognormal-normal model The probit sampling model Bayesian variable selection Notation Posterior model probability The hierarchical uniform prior for models Zellner's gpriors for model parameters Intrinsic priors for model parameters Bayes factors for normal linear models Bayes factors for probit models Bayesian predictive distribution of the net benefit The normal-normal case The case where c and e are independent The lognormal-normal case Optimal treatments for subgroups Examples Improving subgroup definition
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 615.1015195; Bayesian statistical decision theory; Therapeutics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351744362; 9781351744379; 9781351744355; 9781315188850
• Related ISBNs: 9781138731738
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