Who are \(\hat{\delta}\)?
At Delta Hat (\(\hat{\delta}\)) we are health economists and statisticians who provide support to the pharmaceutical industry. We focus on the technical aspects of evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment – from meta-analysis to cost-effectiveness modelling, and everything in between.
Why are we called \(\hat{\delta}\)?
The name of the company represents what we offer - in statistics Greek letters are commonly used to denote unknown parameters. The letter \(\delta\) is commonly used to represent the difference. Placing a circumflex, ^, or ‘hat’ over a letter denotes the estimator of this value. Delta hat, \(\hat{\delta}\), therefore means ‘estimated difference’.
Often in comparative effectiveness and health technology assessment this is the parameter we are trying to estimate – the added value of the new intervention. As the true value can never be observed (at best we conduct a trial to estimate this) further work is often needed to make robust estimates of the benefit of treatment. At \(\hat{\delta}\), we have the skills to perform such analyses (even our website is built in R), with the experience to help understand the implications of the findings.
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How can you contact \(\hat{\delta}\)?
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