Session Details

PM08: Designing and Implementing DICE Simulations of Decision-Analytic Modeling
(Event: SMDM 42nd Annual Meeting: Virtual Meeting)

Oct 13, 2020 1:00PM - Oct 13, 2020 4:00PM
Session Type: Short Course- PM 1/2 Day

Description
 
Background
Participants will learn the concepts that are central to a DICE simulation, their formulation, and how to design, specify, build, and use DICE models in MS Excel® to inform various types of health care decisions. For novice, this course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the technique and its use. From previous courses, we find that most students are capable of building their own model afterwards. For experienced modelers, the course will draw on skills they already have but we will show them how to adapt and apply them to the new modality. For reviewers and others who deal with models but don’t necessarily build them, the course will provide the skills required to review, understand, access and work with these tools.
Course Type
Half Day
Course Level
Intermediate
Format Requirements
 The course will begin by introducing the DICE concepts, how they relate to existing techniques and how they are represented in a spreadsheet (attendees are expected to be reasonably familiar with basic Excel). Examples will be used to illustrate each aspect and a series of exercises will call upon participants to work through the concepts and their implementation. Then, a full DICE simulation will be constructed with participants so that they can see how the model is implemented. For those who wish to build the model live, they are expected to bring a laptop that has English MS Excel already installed (no other software is required).
Description & Objectives
Learning Objectives - after attending this short course, a student should be able to:
  1. Describe what DICE simulation is and how it can be used for modeling decision making
  2. Understand the main concepts of DICE, its advantages and limitations
  3. Design and build a DICE model using MS Excel
  4. Compare and contrast DICE simulation with more traditional approaches to modeling.

This course explains the concepts underlying DICE simulation in simple non-technical terms and then shows how they are implemented to structure everything from simple survival partition through Markov models, microsimulation and discrete event simulation. The course covers the components, the mechanics of implementing them, what to focus on during the model design, how to specify a DICE simulation in Excel and how to execute the model. This will include deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses, scenarios and other analytic approaches. The method will be placed in the context of existing taxonomies of modeling techniques to facilitate a comparison with the traditional methods. Implementation of both Markov models and discrete event simulations, and their combination, within the DICE paradigm will be illustrated by building live examples.

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Session Fees
Fee TypeMember FeeNon-Member Fee
This session is free
Early: $40.00 $40.00
Regular: $40.00 $40.00
Late: $40.00 $40.00
This session is free
Early: $20.00 $20.00
Regular: $20.00 $20.00
Late: $20.00 $20.00

 

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