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Thursday, 10 October 2019

Tushar Srivastava receives NIHR pre-doctoral research award to look at methodological issues around statistics and health economic modelling

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Tushar Srivastava
Our very own Tushar Srivastava has been successful in the recent round of the prestigious NIHR Fellowship Programme and offered an NIHR pre-doctoral research award. Winning this award provides an immense and great opportunity for training and development for Tushar and will give him the means to up-skill in his research area. Through this award, Tushar plans to focus on methodological issues around statistics and health economic modelling. 

In particular, he wishes to explore the following two topic areas: current methodologies for estimating transition probabilities (TPs) in state transition models and the potential role of causal inference (CI) in this context. CI methods estimate causal effects in the presence of confounding and could be useful when TPs are estimated from data which are prone to confounding e.g. from observational data or post-randomisation RCT data. 

Dr Nick Latimer and Prof. Paul Tappenden will be Tushar's supervisor during the award period.
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