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Which Dutch province provides the most Olympic medals?

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Hello folks, I hope everything is ok with you and that you had a nice summer break. As for me, I am still recovering from a quite sad period but I think that the best thing…
Aug 28, 2024
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Some time off …

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Dear readers, unfortunately I have some bad news to communicate which relate to my private life as one person very close to me passed away a couple of weeks ago. This has…
Jul 10, 2024
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New website and more !

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Hello dear readers and, for those of you who found this post in time, welcome back to my new brand website and blog !
Jun 12, 2024
Andrea Gabrio

Two-Parameter Logistic Model

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another post about Item Response Theory models, a topic which has caught my interest in recent times and that I am trying to learn bit by…
May 10, 2024
Andrea Gabrio

Two-Parameter Logistic Model

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Hello folks, I hope everything is running smoothly for you. As for me, it has been quite a hectic period due to a mix of personal circumstances, teaching and grant…
Apr 13, 2024
Andrea Gabrio

Rasch Model

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. Today I would like to resume a topic that I promised myself I will study more but which I kind of left alone for quite some time…
Mar 13, 2024
Andrea Gabrio

Confounders, Colliders, Mediator. What to adjust for

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Hello everybody. here we are with my usual monthly update. Today, similarly to last time, I would like to talk about a bit about classical statistical analysis problems…
Feb 10, 2024
Andrea Gabrio

Why we cannot interpret relative risks in case-control studies

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Hello folks and happy new year! Back from my winter holidays, and after a couple of weeks of feeling quite sick, I am ready to resume my work both in teaching and research.…
Jan 10, 2024
Andrea Gabrio

Just need a break

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Hello folks, today I would like to simply give a brief update about what I am looking for for next year, particularly in terms of conferences I am actuallu planning to…
Dec 10, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

A tutorial on using R to conduct trial-based CEA

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Hello dear readers, here I am with a new post about using statistics in health economic evaluations. Today I want to take a break from the quick examples I gave on using…
Nov 5, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

Bayesian statistics in health economic evaluations - part 2

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Hello dear audience and welcome back to my regular post updates. This time I would like to continue discussing the application of Bayesian methods in HTA that I picked-up in…
Oct 5, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

Bayesian statistics in health economic evaluations

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Hello folks, I hope you had some break time during summer as surely I did! After a whole year of stress and work it was nice to have some vacation period and to clear my…
Sep 2, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

Back from lola

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Hello folks, I am back with my usual update and today I have some good news to report! Last month I went to the annual lolaHESG 2023 conference meeting here in the…
Jun 11, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

Item-Response Theory: intro

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Hello everyone, here we are again with my monthly blog update. Today I would like to continue my initial discussion about Item Response Models (IRMs) which I introduced in…
Jun 11, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

Structural values in health economics data

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Good day folks, today I would like to make a digression from the usual health economics’ topic addressed on this blog and talk about something different that I have recently…
May 10, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

Some updates …

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Hello guys, I hope everything is well with you and that you had some nice Easter break (at least I did). Personally, I really needed this break as I was quite tired and…
Apr 10, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

The missing data dilemma

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Hello folks, as per usual I would like to try to update my blog regularly with some new posts and talk about the stuff I like. Today is the day of one of my most beloved…
Mar 10, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

Structural values in health economics data

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Hello everybody and welcome to my second post of the year. I try to be as consistent as possible with these monthly updates as I would like to keep my blog alive and…
Feb 8, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

How to jointly handle skewed data in economic evaluations

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Hello folks and happy new year! It feels like a million years since last time I posted here but it is in fact only a month (I really try to keep it constant despite all…
Jan 10, 2023
Andrea Gabrio

How to handle correlated data in economic evaluations

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Hi everybody, as per usual I am here posting (again!) to continue the thread about cost-effectiveness analysis. Last time we discussed the importance of modelling CEA data…
Nov 11, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

More health economics updates

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Hello everybody, I just wanted to take a break from the current series of posts about doing HTA in R and talk a bit about some interesting news related to the international…
Nov 11, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

How to handle longitudinal data in economic evaluations

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Hello and welcome back for a new update on my blog. Today we go through another “practical” post where I provide some suggestions and examples on how to fit health economic…
Oct 10, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

How to use bootstrapping in economic evaluations

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Hi everyone, I hope you are ok as this period has been quite busy for me. I had a lot going on, from the resuming of intense teaching activities, lots of boring staff…
Sep 9, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

Back from holidays

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Hi folks, it is good to be back on the blog after some nice vacation spent with my family and friends. This is one of the best parts of the year as people have not all come…
Aug 20, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

EuHEA 2022 Conference

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Here for my usual monthly update! This month I have some exciting news as I had the pleasure to attend the EuHEA 2022 Conference in Oslo between 5-8 July. It was my first…
Jul 7, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

Engaging with the HTA community

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Hello folks, it has been a while since I updated my posts but it has been a very busy period I am afraid. Enough with excuses let’s talk about the news!
Jun 15, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

R markdown for teaching

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Hi guys, today I wanted to post something different from usual research tediousness that is only liked by statisticians and try to focus on another component my academic…
May 5, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

New paper out

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Hello there! (do you get the movie reference?)
Apr 10, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

Attending conferences and invited talks

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Hello folks, here I am with my monthly update about my work and basically what I am up to. A few (mostly happy) things have happened since last time so thought it would be…
Mar 15, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

Studying Item Response Theory

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Hi everybody, I am happy to be back on my blog to talk about something new and interesting, at least to me it is! Recently I have been so busy with routine works that I had…
Feb 5, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

And now what?

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Hello folks and happy new year!
Jan 5, 2022
Andrea Gabrio

And now what?

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As the spectre of a new lockdown approaches the Netherlands, I find myself wondering what are the prospects for the upcoming months. Well, hopefully, things will be better…
Nov 20, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

Baseline adjustment in trial based CEA

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Recently I have come across something I found a little odd when performing a statistical analysis of trial-based CEA data and I would like to share here my experience in the…
Oct 10, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

Back to work

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Well those holidays were pretty short in my opinion!
Sep 20, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

Holidays, finally

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Holidays! Yes, really holidays!
Aug 2, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

A nice workshop

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I have recently been invited to give a talk about my R package missingHE at the R for HTA summer workshop 2021, and I would like to spend a couple of words to describe what…
Jul 2, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

Too hot

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This month is extremely busy and I seriously need a week of days made by 34 hours each in order to avoid any delay. Apart from the usual teaching which is finally coming…
Jun 15, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

The good, the bad and the ugly

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A quick update from me about a couple of things, some good, some bad and other \(\ldots\) ugly.
May 15, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

Going back to teaching, hurray!

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Hello everbody and it is good to be back after a nice and cozy Easter break. As probably most of you, I was too forced to spend my Easter holidays away from my family this…
Apr 15, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

Sunny days which I cannot fully enjoy

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Here we are again. Except now it feels like a very nice spring time here in Maastricht with beautiful sunny days an warm weather. The picture does not really represent the…
Mar 25, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

Doing some teaching…

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Hello everybody, it is time for some quick updates about myself and what I have been doing the past month. Well, essentially, I have been crazy busy doing lots of teaching…
Feb 15, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

What is a Bayesian credible interval?

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Happy new year everybody! Yeah, I know it already almost February but I have been incredibly busy the past few weeks after the Xmas break. From getting familiar with the…
Jan 15, 2021
Andrea Gabrio

It is Xmas again Yeah

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It is Xmas again! Wow, how quickly time flies. The situation here in the Netherlands is not ideal as the number of infected is on the rise again and the government has…
Dec 20, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

A couple of updates

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Finally some exciting updates! I really need some good news after all that happened this year. So, first of all I have recently found out that one of the paper I co-authored…
Nov 5, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Why health economists do not care about statistical significance?

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Hello dear readers!
Oct 10, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Starting a new adventure!

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Hello dear readers, I have some exciting news about myself and my future which I am eager to communicate on this blog. I know that it is not exactly the most interesting…
Sep 10, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

What is Bayesian inference?

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What is probability? The answer to this question is generally acknowledged to be the one that respects the so called Kolmogorov axioms which can be brutally simplified to:
Aug 7, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Why be Bayesian

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Many times I have been asked by co-workers and people around me who are a bit familiar with statistics why I choose to be Bayesian and whether I feel confident in using this…
Jul 7, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

New tutorials for missingHE

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Nothing major to report for the past month, mostly spent at home still in lockdown. A few offices and shops have already opened in London but all the public stuff, including…
Jun 5, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Sorry, an error occurred

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It has been a while from my last update on this website, but this has been an incredibly busy period with lots of routine work that I had to do. Now the situation has clamed…
May 18, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

New updates for missingHE

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In spite of how incredibly busy I am at the moment, which is also weird considering the whole lockdown situation still going on, I managed to upload a new version (1.4.0)…
Apr 20, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

So much time but also not really

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The lockdown proceeds also here in the UK, as in the rest of the world, and at the moment we have no clear idea how long it will last. Not much we can do apart from staying…
Apr 1, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Living and working at home is nice, right?

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It has been roughtly a week and a half now since this whole shutdown started here in London and things are not going to be easy in the next few weeks. I am lucky, in that my…
Mar 20, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Lockdown

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I have to admit, although I expected some fear to spread because of the virus which is currently and quickly infecting the world, I was surprised by the frenzy surrounding…
Mar 1, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Let us do some work

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The moment for the second edition of the HEART’s one-day introductory course to health economics arrived at last! The course, led by Rachael Hunter and called “Understanding…
Feb 10, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Finally here …

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The new year is finally taking off for me and I have a couple of updates. First, I would like to remind everyone about the exciting new course “understanding health…
Feb 1, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Let us do some work

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After the terrible start of this year, things are going ok now and I am quite busy with different projects that I left a bit behind. First, I can confirm that me and my…
Jan 9, 2020
Andrea Gabrio

Not a very good start…

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After some nice holiday break, I came back to work ready for an exciting 2020 … or so I thought. Unfortunately, I have recently been caught by a terrible flu which forced me…
Dec 9, 2019
Andrea Gabrio

Too many things, again….

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I did not have much time to post anything this month until now as it has been a quite busy period. I have been involved in many different works and I have also involved…
Nov 9, 2019
Andrea Gabrio

Copenhagen, I am coming …

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Finally the time of ISPOR Europe 2019 has arrived and I will depart in a few days for Copenhagen, where the conference is held this year. I am actually looking forward to…
Oct 28, 2019
Andrea Gabrio

More good news…

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I have got two news coming up. First, the paper I wrote with Michael and Gianluca on Bayesian methods for longitudinal data in trial-based economic evaluations has finally…
Oct 1, 2019
Andrea Gabrio

MissingHE 1.2.1

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I have finally found some time to update the version for my R package missingHE, for which version 1.2.1 is now available on CRAN. I included two main features to the…
Sep 25, 2019
Andrea Gabrio

Discussing my thesis

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I have been kindly invited by the amazing person Chris Sampson to talk about the work I inlcuded in my PhD thesis for his monthly rubric entitled “Thesis Thursday” on the The…
Sep 15, 2019
Andrea Gabrio

The P value fallacy

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Today, I would like to briefly comment an interesting research article written by Goodman, who provided a clear and exemplary discussion about the typical incorrect…
Aug 3, 2019
Andrea Gabrio

HESG Summer Meeting 2019

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I have just come back form my first Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) meeting, which this year was held at the University of East Anglia in the beautiful city of…
Jul 3, 2019
Andrea Gabrio
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