Building the EVSI

Anna and I have just arxived a paper (that we’ve also submitted to Value in Health), in which we’re trying to publicise more widely and in a less technical way the “Moment Matching” method (which we sent to MDM and _should _be on track and possibly out soon…) to estimate the Expected Value of Sample Information.

The main point of this paper is to showcase the method and highlight its usability $-$ we are also working on computational tools that we’ll use to simplify and generalise the analysis. It’s an exciting project, I think and luckily we’ve got our hands on data and designs for some real studies, so we can play around them, which is also nice. I’ll post more soon.

Anna has suggested the title of the paper with Bob the builder in mind (so “Can we do it? Yes we can”), although perhaps President Obama (simply “Yes we can”) may have worked better. Either way, the picture to the left is just perfect for when we turn this into a presentation…