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Gianluca Baio's blog: Movie stars
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Friday, 16 December 2016. Our search for potential alternatives to an academic career, in the face of increasing competition and difficulties in securing grant money has now led Jolene. And me to seek employment in the show-biz $-$ just in case we fail to recruit enough students for our new MSc in Health Economics and Decision Science. Posted by Gianluca Baio. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). UCL Stats for Health Economic Evaluation.
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Gianluca Baio's blog: Elections and the law of large numbers
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Saturday, 19 November 2016. Elections and the law of large numbers. I know most people have been caught up in the minor and irrelevant issue of the US presidential election $-$ what really mattered in the past couple of weeks was another, much more important election: the ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics. Was renewing many of its officers! Posted by Gianluca Baio. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What I should really.
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Gianluca Baio's blog: October 2016
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Monday, 10 October 2016. This is really exciting $-$ well, at least for us. Our new Masters in Health Economics and Decision Sciences. Is up and running and applications are now open for the next academic year! In the meantime, we thought we'd include some ideas of what the syllabus might look like, for different students' backgrounds (in brackets the departments/institutes within UCL already providing the module). 2 Economic Evaluation (IGH). 3 Med...
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Gianluca Baio's blog: Ordinal football
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Monday, 1 October 2012. I've had a quick look at this. Article on R-bloggers $-$ I don't think I've followed the whole exchange, but I believe they have discussed what models should/could be applied to estimate football scores (specifically, in this case they are using the Dutch league). But I think this formulation is unnecessarily complicated and a bit confusing. Models and those discussed in the post I'm considering seem to assume independence be...
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Gianluca Baio's blog: September 2016
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Thursday, 15 September 2016. I'm writing this post mostly as a signpost for myself $-$ I guess you always encounter issues like this, which seem trivial, and the fix is so easy $-$ if only you had a bunch of little workers at your disposal all the time. Posted by Gianluca Baio. Yesterday I went to beautiful Bath for The Fifth Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications. And give a talk. Posted by Gianluca Baio. First ...
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Gianluca Baio's blog: Porn capital of the porn nation
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Friday, 10 January 2014. Porn capital of the porn nation. The other day I was having a quick look at the newspapers and I stumbled on this. Article. Apparently, Pornhub (. A website whose mission should be pretty clear) have analysed the data on their customers and found out that the town of Ware. Comments have gone both ways. The data (or at least an excerpt) are available from The Guardian website. After downloading the data to a file ". Boxplot(t...
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Gianluca Baio's blog: Nomen omen
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Friday, 9 December 2016. After resisting this for way too long, I've finally decided it was time to release more widely a couple of the R packages I've been working on $-$ I've put them on GitHub. In both cases, while I think the packages do work nicely, I am still not sure they are ready for an official release on CRAN. So, I've created Git repositories for survHE. I've talked about this here. And the packages can be installed by using devtools.
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Gianluca Baio's blog: Bayes 2017
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Thursday, 15 December 2016. We've just opened the call for abstract for the next edition of the Bayes Workshop. This time we're going to Spain and to be more precise to Albacete. The format is the same as in the past few years $-$ you can send your abstract (including title, authors and not exceeding 300 words) at info@bayes-pharma.org. Posted by Gianluca Baio. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). UCL Stats for Health Economic Evaluation.
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Gianluca Baio's blog: August 2016
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Friday, 26 August 2016. I've just heard the very sad news that Richard Nixon has passed away this morning. I can't say I knew Richard very well, but I thought he really was a lovely guy and I am very saddened. I knew of him (among other things) through his work on covariate adjustment in health economic evaluations. Which I think was part of his PhD at the MRC Cambridge. He said the three of us should have a go. Then we taught the course at. Yell ab...
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Gianluca Baio's blog: PhD opportunity!
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Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff. Thursday, 15 December 2016. Applications are invited for a PhD funding opportunity to conduct research in a branch of probability or statistics based in the UCL Department of Statistical Science. Commencing in September 2017. This funding is provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Or related to evidence synthesis and network meta-analysis, as well as the use of observational data for health economic evaluation.
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