Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Glossary; Chapter 1: Introduction to health economic evaluation; Chapter 2: Introduction to Bayesian inference; Chapter 3: Statistical cost-effectiveness analysis; Chapter 4: Bayesian analysis in practice; Chapter 5: Health economic evaluation in practice; References; Back Cover
Summary
Health economics is concerned with the study of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. This book provides an overview of Bayesian methods for the analysis of health economic data. After an introduction to the basic economic concepts and methods of evaluation, it presents Bayesian statistics using accessible mathematics. The next chapters describe the theory and practice of cost-effectiveness analysis from a statistical viewpoint, and Bayesian computation, notably MCMC. The final chapter presents three detailed case studies covering cost-effectiveness analyses using individual
