Bert,

I AM a statistician.  Your lack of familiarity with this particular subset of stats is no reason to insult me or my posting.

"Cost Effectiveness" is a very standard field of study in health care and epidemiology.  The methods and models are common and well defined.  I did not ask for help with my model, my math, or my stats. 

It isn't relavant to my question to describe the entire study being performed.  My question was simply in relation to any existing packages in R that might make the job easier.  I tend to prefer using R over myopic commercial packages that often don't offer much more than R does.   Instead of having the department purchase an expensive software license, I'd rather do this in R.  (You can do al most anything in R.)

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Noah Silverman
UCLA Department of Statistics
8117 Math Sciences Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095

On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:

> Noah:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Noah Silverman <noahsilverman@ucla.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was just assigned to perform a cost effectiveness study in healthcare.  We are studying the cost effectiveness of a proposed diagnostic vs. current screening procedures.
> 
> -- Please! -- Do you think this really describes your problem
> sufficiently for a coherent answer? What sort of data do you have? --
> what are the measures of cost and effectiveness? -- How complete are
> your data? -- Is there censoring, missing values? What are the
> covariates? How measured and recorded? ...
> 
> I would strongly recommend that you consult with fellow local
> statisticians. At the very least, they might be able to point you in
> the right (R package) direction. But I think you need a good deal more
> help and guidance than that to formulate the questions, both
> scientific and statistical.
> 
> -- Bert
> 
>> 
>> One of the team members suggest a commercial software package called "TreeAge Pro".  Looking at the description, it appears to be a nice GUI to some very simple models that could be easily constructed in R.
>> 
>> Are there any packages in R for this type of analysis?
>> Additionally, does anyone have any suggestions in general regarding doing this type of analysis in R?
>> 
>> Thank You,
>> 
>> --
>> Noah Silverman
>> UCLA Department of Statistics
>> 8117 Math Sciences Building
>> Los Angeles, CA 90095
>> 
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> 
> Bert Gunter
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