Value of Information for Health Economic Evaluations: book code resources

2023-03-28

This is a guide to the code and software resources for the book Value of Information for Health Economic Evaluations (eds. Heath, Jackson, Kunst). The book is under development, and when published, these resources will be linked from here.

Before running any of this code, you should install the voi package, which when the book is published will be available from CRAN.

install.packages("voi")

Then you should set the working directory as follows

system.file("Chemotherapy_Book",package="voi")

then your working directory should contain subdirectories that include 01_data_raw, 02_data, etc. You can check this by running the command list.files() in your R console.

Alternatively, you can copy the contents of the Chemotherapy_Book directory to your preferred working directory, and work there instead.

Chapter 3: Chemotherapy case study

The code to run the baseline cost-effectiveness analysis (TODO REF SECTION NUMBERS) is in the 04_analysis/02_baseline_model_output.R subdirectory (link to GitHub source). This can be run all at once using

source("04_analysis/02_baseline_model_output.R")

Or alternatively, open this file in R, and examine and run each line of code by hand.

Chapter 4: Value of Perfect Information

EVPI analysis for the Chemotherapy model (REF section)

04_analysis/03_Expected_Value_of_Perfect_Information.R (link to GitHub source)

Nonparametric regression examples

EVPPI analysis for the Chemotherapy model (REF section)

04_analysis/04_Expected_Value_of_Partial_Perfect_Information.R (link to GitHub source)

Chapter 5: Value of Sample Information

Moment matching methods

04_analysis/05_Expected_Value_of_Sample_Information_MM.R (link to GitHub source)

Regression-based methods

04_analysis/05_Expected_Value_of_Sample_Information_RB.R (link to GitHub source)