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Letter to the Editor regarding the article: "identifying pre-hospital factors associated with outcome for major trauma patients in a regional trauma network: an exploratory study"

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2017
The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report some methodological shortcomings in a recently published article. Issues regarding missing values and overfitting are mentioned.
Charlie A. Sewalt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Language Attrition through Orthography

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
The decay in the proficiency of the native language (L1), known as first language attrition, is one of the least understood phenomena associated with the acquisition of a second language (L2).
Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Product Sampling for New Product Diffusion Incorporating Multiple-Unit Ownership

open access: yesAbstract and Applied Analysis, 2014
Multiple-unit ownership of nondurable products is an important component of sales in many product categories. Based on the Bass model, this paper develops a new model considering the multiple-unit adoptions as a diffusion process under the influence of ...
Zhineng Hu, Yurong Pei, Ruikun Xie
doaj   +1 more source

Pregnant women’s views on how to promote the use of a decision aid for Down syndrome prenatal screening: a theory-informed qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background For pregnant women and their partners, the decision to undergo Down syndrome prenatal screening is difficult. Patient decision aids (PtDA) can help them make an informed decision.
Titilayo Tatiana Agbadjé   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Instrumental variable analysis to estimate treatment effects: a simulation study showing potential benefits of conditioning on hospital

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Background Instrumental variable (IV) analysis holds the potential to estimate treatment effects from observational data. IV analysis potentially circumvents unmeasured confounding but makes a number of assumptions, such as that the IV shares no common ...
I. E. Ceyisakar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

European Union Regulations on Algorithmic Decision-Making and a "Right to Explanation" [PDF]

open access: yesThe AI Magazine, 2016
We summarize the potential impact that the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation will have on the routine use of machine learning algorithms.
B. Goodman, S. Flaxman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left middle frontal gyrus modulates the information people communicate in different social contexts

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Neocortical structures of the left frontal lobe, middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in particular, have been suggested to be linked to the processing of punishing and unpleasant outcomes in decision tasks.
Beatriz Martín-Luengo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decision-Making by Children [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child resistance.
Shelly Lundberg   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Effectiveness of Entropy Weight Method in Decision-Making

open access: yes, 2020
Entropy weight method (EWM) is a commonly used weighting method that measures value dispersion in decision-making. The greater the degree of dispersion, the greater the degree of differentiation, and more information can be derived.
Yuxin Zhu, Dazuo Tian, Feng Yan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The implementation of value-based healthcare: a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The aim of this study was to identify and summarize how value-based healthcare (VBHC) is conceptualized in the literature and implemented in hospitals.
Dorine J. van Staalduinen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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