title: Bayesian modelling of positively skewed data with particular application to the cost aspect of medical cost-effectiveness analysis.
abstract: The motivation for this research was the study of a medical cost data set from a clinical trial. If a Regulatory Body were to be accept the new intervention that has been proposed then a Health Care provider has to budget for future treatments for some members of the rest of the population. In this Bayesian analysis we want to be able to calculate the expected value for one unobserved member of this finite population from its posterior predictive distribution by firstly establishing the parametr
journal: White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)