Have I thought this through?

Of the many phrases and idioms in the English language, I think “have you thought this through” is one of my favourites — perhaps it’s the allitteration or that, if you’re not a native English speaker, you kind of have to concentrate to say it properly, with all the “h” sounds… And I often find myself wondering whether I’ve actually thought things through. Although, technically, that’s supposed to be my job — thinking things through and using (rigorously Bayesian) decision theory to make decisions…

Our book proposal has had very good reviews — frankly, I wasn’t expecting the reviewers to almost match my own enthusiasm! Here’s a draft and extremely ambitious high-level table of content.

Part 1 — Introduction to cost-effectiveness analysis

1. (Very) basics of health economics
2. Statistical modelling
3. Software and computer configuration

Part 2 — Statistical modelling in cost-effectiveness analysis

1. Individual level data
2. Missing data
3. Survival analysis
4. Decision-analytic models
5. Decision tree models
6. Partition survival models
7. Cohort Markov models in discrete-time
8. Continuous time multistate models
9. Discrete event simulation models
10. Infectious disease models
11. Indirect treatment comparisons
12. Value of information
13. Joint Modeling for the purposes of health economic evaluation

Part 3 – Standardising post-processing and health economic evaluation

1. R-shiny web-applications
2. SAVI
3. BCEA
4. hesim
5. dampack

The plan is to involve quite a few people in the write up — I know it’ll be a hell of a job to keep things consistent and the number of pages $<\infty$! More on this as we move it along.