R for Health Technology Assessment discusses the use of proper statistical software, specifically R, to perform the whole pipeline of analytic modelling in health technology assessment (HTA). It has been designed with the objective of establishing the use of R as the standard tool for HTA amongst academics, industry practitioners, and regulators. It covers a lot of ground, starting with necessary background in HTA, R, and statistical inference; followed by various modelling tools, ranging from missing data, survival analysis, and decision trees, through to multistate models and discrete event simulation. The methods are all illustrated with many detailed worked examples and case studies using real data, and there are detailed descriptions of the code and processes.

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This text is primarily aimed at modellers working in the field of HTA, regulators and reviewers of reimbursement dossiers and cost-effectiveness analyses. It also complements a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programmes in HTA, health and public health economics, as well as academic researchers in the field of statistical modelling for HTA.