JSM 2004 - Toronto

JSM Activity #CE_04C

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CE_04C Sat, 8/7/04, 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM FRY-Confederation 5 & 6
Practical Bayesian Methods for Evaluating Clinical Interventions (1 Day Course) - Continuing Education - Course
ASA, Biopharmaceutical Section, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Instructor(s): David Spiegelhalter, Institute of Public Health
We may define a Bayesian approach as 'the explicit quantitative use of external evidence in the design, monitoring, analysis, interpretation and reporting of a health-care evaluation'. Such a perspective is claimed to be more flexible than traditional methods, more efficient in using all available evidence, and more useful in providing predictions as a basis for decisions for specific patients, planning research, or public policy. This course is intended to provide a non-technical review of the essential ideas of Bayesian analysis as applied to the evaluation of health-care interventions, brief comparisons with conventional approaches, a wide range of applications on real data, presented in a standardized format, and advice on modeling issues such as prior specification. The emphasis throughout will be on practical examples: software and code to carry out all the analyses will be freely downloadable from the web.
 

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