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The migration
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been doing lots of work to migrate my website and the blog to a fully-integrated version based on Hugo and blogdown . THE NEW ADDRESS IS http://www.stat...
Free tweets
As part of their marketing strategy, Springer have tweeted a link to free download of Chapter 1 of our BCEA book . The tweet went out last Friday, but I think there's still time...
HTA R Us
Together with colleagues around the UK, we're organising a workshop on the use of R for statistical modelling in health economic evaluation (broadly speaking, "cost-effectiveness analysis"). ...
Commonwealth Games
Earlier this week, we found out that we have secured the Commonwealth Share Scholarship for our Master Programme in Health Economics & Decision Science . The Commonwealth Shared Scholarship S...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/02/commonwealth-games.html
Significance early-career writing competition
We've just issued the call for entries for our 2018 writing competition for early-career statisticians. Details of the competition are available online here . The competition is open to: (1...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/02/significance-early-career-writing.html
Acro-juggling
Yesterday, we held our UCL Health Economics Network Symposium. Kobi has been poorly since Friday, which of course has coincide with a particularly busy week end/start to the new week... Su...
PhD studentships @ UCL
My department at UCL has been allocated 1 EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) award for 2018/19. The award will be 4 years in duration (or 6 years for part-time candidates), covering UK/...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/01/phd-studentships-ucl.html
501 days of Summer (school)
As I anticipated earlier , we're now ready to open registration for our Summer School in Florence (I was waiting for UCL to set up the registration system and thought it may take much longer ...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/01/501-days-of-summer-school.html
If you've got an issue...
I've just got an email alert to the very last issue of Medical Decision Making , which I found very, very interesting. I knew of a couple of papers through either reviewing or other means, but ...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/01/if-youve-got-issue.html
500 days of Summer (school)
We're nearly ready to advertise the 2018 edition of our Florence Summer School on Bayesian Methods in Health Economics (some posts from last year are here and here )! The dates are June 4...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/01/500-hundred-days-of-summer-school.html
Bayes 2018/Bayesian Biostatistics
This year, our annual Bayes 20XX conference has been jointly organised with the MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge and is also a satellite event before the main ISBA conference in Edinburgh . ...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/01/bayes-2018bayesian-biostatistics.html
MSc studentships @ UCL
Two National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) studentships in Medical Statistics are available for the 2018/19 academic year. The studentships cover tuition fees at the UK/EU rate and a mai...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2018/01/msc-studentships-ucl.html
A Bayesian analysis of polls in the Catalan elections
(Invited post by Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, UCLM, Albacete, Spain. Thanks Gianluca for the invitation!!) I have been involved in the planning and analysis or survey polls almost since I came back t...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-bayesian-analysis-of-polls-in-catalan.html
Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary care resources?
This is a very important contribution to the medical literature, recently published in the BMJ. I think the sample size is probably not large enough to grant robust inference. And perhaps it...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2017/12/does-peppa-pig-encourage-inappropriate.html
βCEA
Recently, I've been doing a lot of work on the beta version of BCEA (I was after all born in Agrigento $-$ in the picture to the left $-$, which is a Greek city, so a beta version sounds abou...
La lotteria dei rigori
Seems like my own country has kind of run out of luck... First we fail to qualify for the World Cup, then lose the right to host the relocated headquarters of the European Medicine Agency , pos...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2017/11/la-lotteria-dei-rigori.html
Relocation, relocation, relocation
Earlier today, I was contacted by Politico $-$ they are covering the story about the European Union's process to reassign the two EU agencies currently located in London, the European Medicin...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2017/11/relocation-relocation-relocation.html
At the Oscars!
Well, these days being part of the glittering world of show-biz is not necessarily a good thing, but when your life is soooo glamorous that someone feels the unstoppable need to make a biopic of ...
The Alan Turing's project
The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) has just announced the next round of Doctoral Studentships. Here's the original blurb with all the relevant information. The guys in the picture are not part ...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-alan-turings-project.html
Summer school in Leuven
Emmanuel has organised earlier this year the first edition of the Summer School on Advanced Bayesian Methods , in the beautiful Belgian town of Leuven (which is also where we had our Bayes c...
https://gianlubaio.blogspot.com/2017/10/summer-school-in-leuven.html
24. Nearly.
As the academic year is beginning (our courses will officially start next week), this week has seen the arrival of our new students, including those in our MSc Health Economics & Decision Scien...