This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Activity Details

323 * ! Tue, 8/3/2010, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-204 (West)
Calibration Methods for Microsimulation Models — Invited Papers
WNAR , Biometrics Section , Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Carolyn M. Rutter, Group Health Research Institute
Chair(s): Sean Devlin, University of Washington
10:35 AM Calibrating Microsimulations with Multicriteria Optimization Algorithms Chung Yin Kong, Massachusetts General Hospital
11:00 AM A Quadratic Regression Approach to Maximize the Mean Simulated Likelihood in Microsimulation Models with Few Parameters Roman Gulati, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Lurdes Inoue, University of Washington ; Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:25 AM Bayesian Calibration of Microsimulation Models Carolyn M. Rutter, Group Health Research Institute
11:50 AM Discussant: Gregory Samsa, Duke University School of Medicine
12:10 PM Floor Discussion



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