I'm super proud of @statistics_UCL who has now been conferred the Athena Swan Silver Award! Super thank you to all my colleagues! Awesome!
Many apologies for cross-posting, but I thought it may be of interest to some of you.
Summer school: Bayesian methods in health economics
Date: 15-19 June 2026
Venue: UCL Department of Statistical Science
More information can be found at the summer school webpage. Registration is available from the UCL Store. For more details or enquiries (including to discuss reduced fees for participants from low and middle-income countries), email me!
My 2p on the proposal to change NICE regulation...
If you can't be bothered to read the promotional material for our BCEA book (https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/bcea/), perhaps you can listen to this?... π π
I've had **lots** of fun on a fantastic visit to @karolinskainstitutet - thanks so much Mark Clements and Paul Dickman for the amazing organisation and hospitality!
I talked about Bayesian modelling and HTA (surprise!...)
On my way back home after ISPOR in Glasgow.
As usual, very busy but nice to see lots of a friends & colleagues! Had lots fun doing my short course on Hands-on modelling in R (with Rose Hart and Howard Thom -- and, in spirit only for this time, Felicity Lamrock) + the session on missing data in PRO (with Miranda Cooper, Neil Hawkins and Olivier CHASSANY).
Great to talk R-HTA with many people too!
https://gianluca.statistica.it/slides/ispor-2025t
https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/bcea
https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/r-hta
Will I, despite all the angst and disappointment, have managed to include a slide about Sampdoria in my talk on missing data, at tomorrow ISPOR conference session?
Come and find out for yourself... π
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!
R for Health Technology Assessment https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/r-hta
Very, very, very nearly there...
(Officially out on Monday, when we'll also release the fully-online version!)
Belfast Airport rocking Self Control. Not too shabby for background music... ππΌππΌ