aDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The Key Laboratory of Intelligent Preventive Medicine of Zhejiang ...

Objectives We aimed to investigate which prevention strategies for low back pain (LBP) are most effective. Design We completed a Bayesian network meta-analysis to summarise the comparative ...

Objectives To identify published closed-loop Bayesian mixed treatment comparisons (MTCs) and to summarise characteristics regarding their conduct and reporting. Design Systematic review. Methods We ...

Objective This study aimed to investigate the spatial distribution of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Hunan province, China. Methods An ecological study was conducted using DR-TB data collected ...

Distributed lag non-linear models (DLNMs) are the reference framework for modelling lagged non-linear associations. They are usually used in large-scale multi-location studies. Attempts to study these ...

For more details see the full course programme. This course is for health economists, statisticians, and decision modellers interested in the extension of pair-wise meta-analysis to network ...

Cross-classified random effects models (CCREMs) have been developed for appropriately analyzing data with a cross-classified structure. Despite its flexibility and the prevalence of cross-classified ...

Abundance and population trends of Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis, NARW) have been estimated using mark-recapture analyses where an individual’s state is based ...

1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. 2 Department of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. The ...

There are numerous fields of science in which multistate models are used, including biomedical research and health economics. In biomedical studies, these stochastic continuous-time models are used to ...