Journal
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
Volume 35, Issue 23, Pages 4264-4280Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6983
Keywords
SPDE-INLA; Gaussian Process regression; Health economic evaluation; Value of information
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- EPSRC
- Mapi
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1482561] Funding Source: researchfish
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The Expected Value of Perfect Partial Information (EVPPI) is a decision-theoretic measure of the cost' of parametric uncertainty in decision making used principally in health economic decision making. Despite this decision-theoretic grounding, the uptake of EVPPI calculations in practice has been slow. This is in part due to the prohibitive computational time required to estimate the EVPPI via Monte Carlo simulations. However, recent developments have demonstrated that the EVPPI can be estimated by non-parametric regression methods, which have significantly decreased the computation time required to approximate the EVPPI. Under certain circumstances, high-dimensional Gaussian Process (GP) regression is suggested, but this can still be prohibitively expensive. Applying fast computation methods developed in spatial statistics using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations (INLA) and projecting from a high-dimensional into a low-dimensional input space allows us to decrease the computation time for fitting these high-dimensional GP, often substantially. We demonstrate that the EVPPI calculated using our method for GP regression is in line with the standard GP regression method and that despite the apparent methodological complexity of this new method, R functions are available in the package BCEA to implement it simply and efficiently. (c) 2016 The Authors. Statistics in Medicine Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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