Economics notes: Handling uncertainty in economic evaluation

Handling uncertainty when performing economic evaluation of healthcare interventions.

Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Briggs A H, Gray A M. Handling uncertainty when performing economic evaluation of healthcare interventions. Health Technology Assessment 1999; 3(2): 1-134 Authors' objectives 1. To perform a...

Uncertainty in economic evaluation studies.

As we could see in the previous articles of the economic evaluation series, there is a large set of information required for decision makers on health expenditures and outcomes, and the way they spread over time. In order to obtain this information, epidemiological, economic, mathematical and statistical methods are used, but they all have limitations which are inherent to any scientific method...

Uncertainty in Environmental Economics

An introductory course in environmental economics typically teaches students that the design and evaluation of a policy to deal with an environmental problem boils down to cost-benefit analysis. The instructor might proceed as follows. Left to their own, humans (i.e., producers and consumers) do bad things to the environment, such as polluting rivers and lakes, spewing sulfur dioxide into the a...

Notes for Economics 200c*

Uncertainty handling in spatial relationships

It is recognized that the existing spatial relations do not cover the areas of metrics (i.e. to what degree are two objects A, B overlapping, or to what degree they meet), and uncertainty (i.e. objects A, B overlap significantly, object A is far away from B etc.). The goal of the paper is to deal with the uncertainty of spatial relationships on the assumption of crisp spatial objects. To achiev...