Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Treatments

by Miguel Angel Negrin-Hernandez, Elias Moreno, Francisco Jose Vazquez-Polo

Cost-effectiveness analysis is becoming an increasingly important tool for decision making in the health systems. Cost-Effectiveness of Medical Treatments formulates the cost-effectiveness analysis as a statistical decision problem, identifies the sources of uncertainty of the problem, and gives an overview of the frequentist and Bayesian statistical approaches for decision making. Basic notions on decision theory such as space of decisions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138731730
• ISBN13: 9781138731738
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 284 Pages