Dad to Kobi & Anna; Hubby to @martablangiardo. Also, prof of Statistics & Health Economics @ucl & HoD @stats_UCL. Some time to spare for the rest. From Florence, but in London. #bayesian #rstats #HTA
Hot off the press - the 2nd edition of our BCEA book, with Anna Heath, Andrea Berardi and Nathan Green!
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-00877-0?as=webp
We have now collated all the relevant R scripts for the chapters of the R-HTA book, available from
https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/r-hta/
You can find them at the GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/giabaio/R-HTA-code
Thanks to Howard Thom and Petros Pechlivanoglou (my wonderful co-editors) and all the fantastic authors, who've given us permission to share the code and relevant data!
Our latest paper from the Epitome research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776225001784
with some commentary and summary also here
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267434/deprivation-transport-density-linked-increased-suicide/
Hot off the electronic press, a few new articles on our departmental magazine Sample Space!
Very, very, very nearly there...
(Officially out on Monday, when we'll also release the fully-online version!)
The Italian Consulate's call centre hold music is so funky and captivating. Love it.
Am I the only one that on the very limited number of occasions where I've used ChatGTP cannot resist the urge to insult it because it is often thick and does NOT give you the right answers?...
(It is of course possible that I'm not asking the right question --- garbage in/garbage out and all that... But I'm pretty sure I've done my part right and it has done its very, very poorly...)
The R for Health Technology Assessment workshop will be on 6, 9 and 10 June 2025. Details and updates here:
https://r-hta.org/events/workshop/2025/
Registration can be completed here:
https://tinyurl.com/rhta-2025
Abstract submission deadline is 4 April!
It's that time of the year again...
Registration is open for our summer school in Bayesian methods in health economics - this year it will be at University College London @statistics_UCL 23-27 June. Check all details here:
https://gianluca.statistica.it/teaching/summer-school/
Registration is open here:
https://tinyurl.com/bmhe2025
First-come/first-serve, so hurry up!