Healthcare:
In healthcare related courses TreeAge Pro is typically used in classes and programs where there is an emphasis on cost-effectiveness analysis. The topics typically covered in these courses are:

• introduction to the issues and research methods that concern health outcomes
• related research methodologies including evaluating efficacy, effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness of devices, interventions, process of care and health care delivery systems
• how to perform cost-effectiveness research
• how to find and evaluate data, build a decision analysis model, test the model and present the results
• methods and applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in medical decision making
• construction and interpretation of decision trees
• probability revision and evaluation of diagnostic tests
• comparing risks and benefits under uncertainty
• incorporating patient preferences into decisions by measuring utilities and quality of life
• evaluating resource allocation decisions with cost-effectiveness analysis
• design state-of-the-art economic evaluations
• enhancing your outcomes research in medical technology and pharmaceuticals
• employing cost and service utilization data in economic evaluations
• incorporating cost and quality-of-life outcomes in clinical trials
• modeling outcomes that occur after the end of a clinical trial
• constructing and analyzing a simple Markov decision-analytic model using
  TreeAge Pro software
• describe various methodologies for estimating costs, both from clinical trial data and from observational databases

Business:
Understanding and evaluating the inherent uncertainty in a particular business situation is critical to improving bottom line results. Many business management courses are focused on teaching the principles of operations management to help improve processes and the bottom line. In business or more general classroom settings TreeAge Pro has typically been used in classes and programs where there is an emphasis on operations research and operations management. These classes are focused on teaching students how to improve bottom line results in manufacturing, engineering, and service organizations by providing a systematic analytical approach through which continuous improvement and optimization can be achieved. TreeAge Pro software allows professors to incorporate the analytical component in these discussions by including simulation, modeling, optimization and forecasting in the coursework .

The topics typically covered in these courses are:

• Creating and optimizing management processes
• Understanding risk analysis, risk management, decision analysis and simulation methods
• Portfolio and project management based on constraints
• Simulating changes in existing processes
• Capacity and resource planning
• Resource allocation and inventory optimization
• Preventive and reliability analysis
• Cost estimating
• Analysis of contingency provisions for construction project capital estimates
• Project planning and forecasting
• Public and private finance economics
• Urban planning analysis
• Researching optimal strategies
  

TreeAge Pro (formerly DATA 3.5, 4.0 and DATA Pro) is currently used for teaching and research in over 150 programs throughout the world. For more information and a partial list of TreeAge Software's academic customers, including Harvard School of Public Health, Stockholm School of Economics, University of California, San Francisco, University of Arizona, Duke University, University of Louisiana, Purdue University, University of Rochester, University of Washington, John's Hopkins, Dartmouth Medical School, York University, University of Pittsburgh, Emory University, Tufts, New England Medical Center, Columbia University, UCLA and many more.
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Interested in Using TreeAge Pro in Your Classroom?
We are strongly committed to helping you to learn our software and build it into your curriculum. Here are some of the ways in which we help you achieve that goal.

Textbooks & Classroom
Would You like to Include TreeAge Pro Software in Your Next Book?
Authors, professors and publishers have partnered with TreeAge Software to either use our software in their classrooms or include a version of our software as part of attending a class or purchasing a book.

Books:

• "Decision Making in Health and Medicine," 2001 Myriam Hunink and Paul Glasziou
• "Designing and Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in Medicine and Health Care," 2002 Peter Muennig
• "Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes, Second Edition," 2004-02-02 - ACCP, American College of Clinical Pharmacy

To learn more about including the software in your classroom or bundling our software as part of a book, please contact us by e-mail at marketing[at]treeage.com or call us at 888.TREEAGE (toll free in US and Canada) or +413.458.0104 (international).

 

Low-cost Versions of TreeAge Pro Suite and TreeAge Pro Excel
We publish several versions of TreeAge Pro software to accommodate different academic programs and industry needs. For healthcare-related courses and curricula we recommend TreeAge Pro Suite. For business, legal or more general curricula we recommend
TreeAge Pro Excel.

 

Choose from several different license types:

Student Licenses
Full Functionality Student Licenses
These versions are fully functional, with all features enabled but restricted in time. These licenses are available to anyone with a current student or other academic ID. Full functionality student licenses are available in both TreeAge Pro Excel and TreeAge Pro Suite.

We offer three different terms for student licenses:
One, Two and Three Year Student Licenses. >

Limited Functionality Student Licenses
These versions are limited in functionality and only allow students to build and save models with up to 125 nodes. In addition, limited functionality student licenses are time limited for one academic year (or ten months).

Limited functionality student licenses are available in both TreeAge Pro Excel and TreeAge Pro Suite. Student licenses should be ordered directly through TreeAge Software and are available to anyone with a current student or other academic ID.

Trial versions
Sometimes a free trial version of the software offers students adequate access and functionality. Our trial versions run for 21 days from installation and allow students to save models with up to 35 nodes.

Click here to download a trial version. >

 

Multi-User Licenses
Because of the widespread use of our products, many universities have expressed an interest in more flexible licensing arrangements. To that end we offer both a Teaching License for the classroom setting and a Group License for a department or research group.

Teaching Licenses
Designed to fit the needs of academic institutions worldwide, TreeAge Software teaching licenses are the most cost-effective choice for colleges and universities that wish to include our software as part of an academic course. Teaching licenses can be purchased either on an annual or perpetual license basis.

To learn more about our academic licenses please visit our Purchase section.

 

Research / Group Licenses
Our Group license is ideal for a collaborative research group or department that requires more flexibility than a single-user license provides. It allows our software to be deployed on a network, workstation or laptop — an especially useful feature when users must access the software from different locations.

To learn more about our academic licenses please visit our Purchase section.

All licenses have unlimited installations in the departments, colleges or campuses for which they are licensed.

 

Full Functionality Academic Licenses
Full functionality academic licenses are available to students and professors for our entire TreeAge Pro product family.

Professors & Students: Click here to learn more about academic pricing for our entire TreeAge Pro product family.