Fig. 5From: Operations research in global health: a scoping review with a focus on the themes of health equity and impactBreakdown of operations research methodologies. The Stochastic category includes Markov models (e.g. state-transition and decision process models) and Monte Carlo methods. The Mathematical category includes deterministic models, epidemiological compartmental models, and other analytical models described by governing equations. The Other category includes all remaining smaller categories including artificial neural networks, inventory models, spreadsheet models with no analytical formulation, etc. See Box 2 Criterion (1) for additional details about the methodologies included. DEA data envelopment analysisBack to article page