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JACMP – Founding and 2000–2004

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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Michael Mills
wiley   +1 more source

Blinding and expectancy confounds in psychedelic randomized controlled trials

Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021
Introduction: There is increasing interest in the potential for psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, LSD and ketamine to treat several mental health disorders, with a growing number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) being conducted to investigate ...
S. Muthukumaraswamy   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimal Expectations [PDF]

open access: possibleAmerican Economic Review, 2005
Forward-looking agents care about expected future utility flows, and hence have higher current felicity if they are optimistic. This paper studies utility-based biases in beliefs by supposing that beliefs maximize average felicity, optimally balancing this benefit of optimism against the costs of worse decision making.
Brunnermeier, Markus K   +1 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Broken Limits to Life Expectancy

Science, 2002
Is human life expectancy approaching its limit? Many--including individuals planning their retirement and officials responsible for health and social policy--believe it is, but the evidence presented in the Policy Forum suggests otherwise.
Jim Oeppen, James W. Vaupel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Expectations

Nursing for Women's Health, 2021
After experiencing abusive and dismissive care during the birth of her son, a nurse advocates that all families have a right to expect the best from their care providers.
openaire   +2 more sources

Is It Expected Volatility or Expected Precision? [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
There is little evidence in support of a normal distribution for most financial assets, including the VIX. This paper concludes that the lambda parameter, in the one-parameter Box & Cox (1964) family, appropriate for VIX to be normal, is minus one (expected precision), which is very far from values of one (no transformation) and zero (logarithm ...
Maria T. Gonzalez-Perez   +1 more
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Expected Utility and Mathematical Expectation

1987
1. Expected utility theory deals with choosing among acts where the decisionmaker does not know for sure which consequence will result from a chosen act. When faced with several acts, the decision–maker will choose the one with the highest ‘expected utility’, where the expected utility of an act is the sum of the products of probability and utility ...
David Schmeidler, Peter P. Wakker
openaire   +2 more sources

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