{"id":10086,"date":"2025-12-09T06:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:17:47","slug":"types-of-uncertainty-in-health-economic-modelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10086","title":{"rendered":"Types of uncertainty in health economic modelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are four primary types of uncertainty in health economic modelling:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heterogeneity<\/strong>: Variation between individuals that can be explained by their characteristics<strong>Stochastic uncertainty<\/strong>: Variation between individuals that cannot be explained by their characteristics, <strong>Parameter uncertainty<\/strong>: Uncertainty in the estimated values for the parameters that define the model<strong>Structural uncertainty<\/strong>: Uncertainty in model outcomes that arise from assumptions and decisions made in the modelling process.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about these types of uncertainty in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gianluca.statistica.it\/books\/online\/r-hta\/chapters\/12.discrete-event-simulation\/des#variation-and-uncertainty-in-individual-level-models\">R for Health Technology Assessment<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/gianluca.statistica.it\/books\/online\/r-hta\/chapters\/12.discrete-event-simulation\/des#variation-and-uncertainty-in-individual-level-models\"> textbook<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are four primary types of uncertainty in health economic modelling: Heterogeneity: Variation between individuals that can be explained by their characteristicsStochastic uncertainty: Variation between individuals that cannot be explained by their characteristics, Parameter uncertainty: Uncertainty in the estimated values for the parameters that define the modelStructural uncertainty: Uncertainty in model outcomes that arise from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}