Day 2: Microsimulation Modeling

Learning objectives

By the end of Day 2, participants should be able to:

  • Understand implementation differences between microsimulation and cohort state transition models
  • Understand how to summarize the output from a microsimulation model
  • Understand how to incorporate more complex dependencies and dynamics in a microsimulation model
  • Implement a microsimulation in R
  • Understand how to convert a decision analytic model from an R script to an R function

Day 2 schedule

Time Material
10:00am-10:15am Review of Day 1 material
10:15am-10:45am Making your model a function: How and why
10:45am-12:00pm Code walk through: Microsimulation 3-state model
12:00pm-12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm-2:00pm Hands-on exercise: Code your own microsimulation model with Sick-Sicker example
2:00pm-4:00pm Advanced topics - TBD

Materials

Download slides: Microsimulation modeling in R

Download R code demo & walkthrough - Make your model a function

Download R code demo & walkthrough - 3-state microsimulation

Exercise - Sick-Sicker microsimulation with time dependency

Download data: ‘mortProb_age.csv’

Download data: ‘MyPopulation-AgeDistribution.csv’

Download exercise template