DATES: Fridays 10, 17, 24 June 2022 (3 sessions)
TIME: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CET
Overview
Supported by the EuroQol Research Foundation, all researchers are invited to participate in an introductory workshop on choice and latent-class analysis in health valuation. Taught by Benjamin M. Craig and Suzana Karim, this free online workshop has three group sessions, two tutoring sessions, and two hands-on exercises using the R programming language and paired comparison data.
Any researcher can register for any session for free. Attendees who participate in all sessions and complete both exercises will receive a
EuroQol Workshop Certificate.
Session 1 (10 June):
Applied Choice Analysis in Health Valuation
The first session will cover the conditional logit and heteroskedastic logit models. Dr. Craig will present the slides and lead the discussion (40 minutes followed by a 10-minute break), and Ms. Karim will introduce the Dutch EQ-5D-Y paired comparison data and its R code (40 minutes). After the session, attendees will be invited to complete an optional hands-on exercise in R and discuss their results during a follow-up tutoring session (30 minutes), allowing for personalized feedback on how to estimate an EQ-5D value set (pits scaled).
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HERE to register for Session 1.
Session 2 (17 June):
Latent Class Analysis in Health Valuation
The second session will extend the heteroskedastic logit model to its latent class counterpart, introducing grade-of-memberships, model selection, and interpretation. After the session, attendees will be invited to complete a second exercise in R and discuss their results during a follow-up tutoring session (30 minutes), allowing for personalized feedback on how to estimate an EQ-5D value set (pits scaled) for each latent class.
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Session 3 (24 June):
Applications and Advanced Topics in Health Valuation
In the third session, Dr. Craig will cover applications and advanced topics, including time preferences, response behaviors, scale-adjusted latent class (SALC) analyses, and random parameters. After the break, Ms. Karim will briefly introduce three examples from her dissertation (Dutch BWS, Peru EQ-5D-5L, and US EQ-5D-5L). They will conclude this session with a discussion on econometric extensions and survey methods in health valuation.
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Disclaimer: This workshop is supported by the EuroQol Research Foundation, but the views expressed do not reflect the views of the Foundation and/or the EuroQol Group.
For Whom
Anyone interested in health valuation, who understands the basics of the EQ-5D descriptive system and has estimated a conditional logit. Some knowledge of R and R studio is encouraged but not required. Stable internet access is required.
Outcome
This introductory workshop was designed to enhance the technical capacity of early career researchers (ECRs). Gaining the capacity to estimate EQ-5D value sets using choice data also prepares ECRs for advanced topics (e.g., time preferences).