Healthy Uncertainty

As I mention in The R Guide, my method for building models in R is the product of some self-directed trial and error. It does not, therefore, match well with more conventional approaches to model building. It still works, and I still believe that “it works” is the only standard... [Read More]

Functions are bits of code that tell R to run a set of instructions to an object (or a group of objects) and return a specific output. You could, for example write a function that tells R to calculate the 95% CI around a number based on its mean, standard... [Read More]

On Jan 20th I was invited to present to the Network of Alberta Health Economists (NOAHE). This afforded me the opportunity to discuss an aspect of my doctoral work that didn’t really get much attention in my actual dissertation, despite being the aspect of the work I was most intrigued... [Read More]

The first R tool that I’m going to write up is what I call the Batch Importer. I sort of describe an early version of this tool in Chapter 4 of the R Guide, but it’s been refined considerably since then. [Read More]

The story of this blog either starts a month ago, or at the beginning of 2020, or sometime during the year 2014, depending on your definition of ‘starts’. Back in 2014 I wrote a guide to building Health State Transition models in R, because I was getting my start doing... [Read More]