How do you find optimal policies for complicated systems such as a health care system?

Christian Dehlendorff works with design and analysis of computer experiments. His research is primarily in the area of simulation in which comlicated systems such as an orthopedic surgical unit are considered. Computer experiments however arises in many areas in which physical experimentation are either too expensive or infeasible and furthermore these system are typically very complex.

Using a computer model as surrogate for the physical system, the restriction in experimentation is bypassed and hence the computer model may be used as a tool for e.g. optimization. Even with a suitable computer model the experiments still needs to be well designed, since these computer models tend to be fairly large and complex and also very time-consuming to run. Statistical design of experiments is therefore an essential tool in this field.

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