Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis with the R package BCEA / Gianluca Baio, Andrea Berardi, Anna Heath.

Preface; Contents; Acronyms; 1 Bayesian Analysis in Health Economics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Bayesian Inference and Computation; 1.2.1 Bayesian Ideas; 1.2.2 Specifying a Bayesian Model; 1.2.3 Bayesian Computation; 1.3 Basics of Health Economic Evaluation; 1.4 Doing Bayesian Analysis and Health Economic Evaluation in R; 1.4.1 Pre-processing the Data; 1.4.2 Building and Coding the Analysis Model; 1.4.3 Running the Model; 1.4.4 Post-processing the Results; 1.4.5 Performing the Decision Analysis; 1.4.6 Using BCEA; References; 2 Case Studies; 2.1 Introduction

2.2 Preliminaries: Computer Configuration2.2.1 MS Windows Users; 2.2.2 Linux or Mac OS Users; 2.3 Vaccine; 2.3.1 (Bayesian) Statistical Model; 2.3.2 Economic Model; 2.4 Smoking Cessation; 2.4.1 (Bayesian) Statistical Model; 2.4.2 Economic Model; References; 3 BCEA
A R Package for Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Economic Analysis: The bcea Function; 3.2.1 Example: Vaccine; 3.2.2 Example: Smoking; 3.3 Basic Health Economic Evaluation: The summary Command; 3.4 Cost-Effectiveness Plane; 3.4.1 The ceplane.plot Function

3.4.2 ggplot Version of the Cost-Effectiveness Plane3.4.3 Advanced Options for ceplane.plot; 3.5 Expected Incremental Benefit; 3.6 Contour Plots; 3.7 Health Economic Evaluation for Multiple Comparators and the Efficiency Frontier; References; 4 Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis Using BCEA; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis for Parameter Uncertainty; 4.2.1 Summary Tables; 4.2.2 Cost-Effectiveness Acceptability Curve; 4.3 Value of Information Analysis; 4.3.1 Expected Value of Perfect Information; 4.3.2 Expected Value of Perfect Partial Information

4.3.3 Approximation Methods for the Computation of the EVPPI4.3.4 Advanced Options; 4.3.5 Technical Options for Controlling the EVPPI Estimation Procedure; 4.3.6 Deprecated (Single-Parameter) Methods; 4.3.7 The Info-Rank Plot; 4.4 PSA Applied to Model Assumptions and Structural Uncertainty; 4.4.1 Mixed Strategy; 4.4.2 Including Risk Aversion in the Utility Function; 4.4.3 Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis to Structural Uncertainty; References; 5 BCEAweb: A User-Friendly Web-App to Use BCEA; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 BCEAweb: A User-Friendly Web-App to Use BCEA

5.2.1 A Brief Technical Overview of BCEAweb5.2.2 Note on Data Import; 5.2.3 Introduction to the Interface; 5.2.4 Check Assumptions; 5.2.5 Economic Analysis; 5.2.6 Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis; 5.2.7 Value of Information; 5.2.8 Report; References; Index