BCEA (version 1.0)

summary.bcea: Summary method for objects in the class "bcea"

Description

Produces a table printout with some summary results of the health economic evaluation

Usage

## S3 method for class 'bcea':
summary(object, wtp = 25000, ...)

Arguments

object

A "bcea" object containing the results of the Bayesian modelling and the economic evaluation

wtp

The value of the willingness to pay threshold to be used in the summary table

...

Additional arguments affecting the summary produced

Value

• Prints a summary table with some information on the health economic output and synthetic information on the economic measures (EIB, CEAC, EVPI)

References

Baio, G., Dawid, A. P. (2011). Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis in Health Economics. Statistical Methods in Medical Research doi:10.1177/0962280211419832.

Baio G. (2012). Bayesian Methods in Health Economics. CRC/Chapman Hall, London

See Also

bcea

Examples

# See Baio G., Dawid A.P. (2011) for a detailed description of the 
# Bayesian model and economic problem
#
# Load the processed results of the MCMC simulation model
data(Vaccine)
# 
# Runs the health economic evaluation using BCEA
m <- bcea(e=e,c=c,          # defines the variables of 
                            #  effectiveness and cost
      ref=2,                # selects the 2nd row of (e,c) 
                            #  as containing the reference intervention
      interventions=treats, # defines the labels to be associated 
                            #  with each intervention
      Kmax=50000            # maximum value possible for the willingness 
                            #  to pay threshold; implies that k is chosen 
                            #  in a grid from the interval (0,Kmax)
)
#
summary(m,      # uses the results of the economic evalaution 
                #  (a "bcea" object)
      wtp=25000	# selects the particular value for k 
)