Overseas Visitor

Prof Tony Marley visited CHERE in May 2006.

Tony is Professor Emeritus, McGill University and Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria, Canada.  His research focuses on mathematical and computational models, particularly as applied to sensation, perception, and decision. He works with both classical mathematical models and more recent neural models. He is also interested in computer modelling in the areas of planning and decision support.

During his visit he progressed an ARC Discovery Grant research project with CHERE research associates Debbie Street, Leonie Burgess and Jordan Louviere that involves developing theoretically acceptable ways to model the discrete choice of single individuals. He also worked with CHERE researchers examining theoretical aspects of QALYs and how choice experiment methods and standard approaches might yield different information.

In addition to research work Prof Marley found time to present a CHERE workshop titled ‘The basic concepts of best-worst models for discrete choice, with reference to the evaluation of health states by time-trade-offs and standard gambles’ and a seminar for the School of Marketing Titled ‘Identifying Variance Components and Attribute Importance in Discrete Choice Theories, If Not in Discrete Choice Experiments’

Prof Marley will return to CHERE in Spring to continue the research on rank dependent utility models in discrete choice experiments for the study of health states.