Acronyms

ASHA Action on Smoking and Health
CADTH Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
CEAC Cost-Effectiveness Acceptability Curve
CEAF Cost-Effectiveness Acceptability Frontier
CRAN Comprehensive R Archive Network
CrI Credible Interval
DAG Directed Acyclic Graph
EIB Expected Incremental Benefit
EVPI Expected Value of Perfect Information
EVPPI Expected Value of Perfect Partial Information
GAM Generalised Additive Model
GP Gaussian Process
IB Incremental Benefit
ICER Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio
INLA Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation
MCMC Markov Chain Monte Carlo
MLE Maximum Likelihood Estimate
MTC Mixed Treatment Comparison
NICE National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NHS National Health Service
NMA Network Meta-Analysis
NRT Nicotine Replacement Therapy
OL Opportunity Loss
ONS Office for National Statistics
OTC Over The Counter
PBAC Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
PSA Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis
QALY Quality-Adjusted Life Year
RCT Randomised Controlled Trial
SAVI Sheffield Accelerated Value of Information
SPDE Stochastic Partial Differential Equation
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
VI Value of Information
WTP Willingness To Pay