introduction

As member of the Health Economics Analysis and Research Methods Team (HEART), together with my colleagues, on Tuesday 2 July I took part in a 1-day introductory short course entitled “Understanding health economics in clinical trials”, which was designed and delivered by the team.

The focus of this simple tutorial is to provide a brief introduction and overview about how to fit Bayesian models using OpenBUGS via R. Prerequisites: The latest version of R, which can be downloaded and installed for Windows, Mac or Linux OS from the CRAN website I also strongly recommend to download and install Rstudio, an integrated development environment which provides an “user-friendly” interaction with R (e.

The focus of this simple tutorial is to provide a brief introduction and overview about how to fit Bayesian models using JAGS via R. Prerequisites: The latest version of R, which can be downloaded and installed for Windows, Mac or Linux OS from the CRAN website I also strongly recommend to download and install Rstudio, an integrated development environment which provides an “user-friendly” interaction with R (e.

The focus of this simple tutorial is to provide a brief introduction and overview about how to fit Bayesian models using Stan via R. Prerequisites: The latest version of R, which can be downloaded and installed for Windows, Mac or Linux OS from the CRAN website I also strongly recommend to download and install Rstudio, an integrated development environment which provides an “user-friendly” interaction with R (e.