Tony O'Hagan - Academic pages - Abstracts

Case Study in the Bayesian Analysis of a Cost-effectiveness Trial in the Evaluation of Health Care Technologies: Depression.

John W. Stevens, Anthony O'Hagan and Paul Miller

Astra Charnwood, Loughborough, England and Centre for Bayesian Statistics in Health Economics, University of Sheffield, England

Publication details: Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2, 51-68, 2003.

Abstract

We present a case study based on a depression study that will illustrate the use of Bayesian statistics in the economic evaluation of cost-effectiveness data, demonstrate the benefits of the Bayesian approach (whilst honestly recognising any deficiencies) with respect to frequentist methods, and provide details of using the methods, including computer code where appropriate.

This paper was named best paper of 2003 in Pharmaceutical Statistics.