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The Acceptability of Acceptability Curves

I an article in this issue, Groot Koerkamp and others demonstrate a basic result about the presentation of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis as acceptability curves: many (importantly) different joint distributions can produce the same acceptability curves. Although this observation in itself is a natural consequence of the acceptability curve approach, the authors make a strong case for why we, as decision scientists, should be concerned about it. Their case relies on 3 principles: we wish to speak to policy makers, policy makers care about uncertainty in decisions, and acceptability curves do not provide enough information about that uncertainty.