Discrete Event Simulation For Health Technology Assessment

Download or read book Discrete Event Simulation for Health Technology Assessment written by J. Jaime Caro and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to make all the central concepts of discrete event simulation relevant for health technology assessment. Accessible to beginners, the book requires no prerequisites and describes the concepts with as little jargon as possible. It presents essential concepts, a fully worked out implementation example, approaches to analyze the simulations, the development of the required equations, model verification techniques, and validation. The book also covers various special topics and includes a real case study involving screening strategies for breast cancer surveillance.