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Revisiting the learning curve (once again)

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
The vast majority of published work in the field of associative learning seeks to test the adequacy of various theoretical accounts of the learning process using average data.
Steven eGlautier
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Learning Curve of Robotic Radical Prostatectomy [PDF]

European Medical Journal Urology, 2015
Introduction: Prostate cancer (PrC) is the fifth most common malignancy worldwide and the second most common malignancy in men. Currently, robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) has become a popular treatment for localised PrC ...
Muhammed Ersagun Arslan, Abdullah Erdem Canda, Ali Fuat Atmaca, Mevlana Derya Balbay, Ziya Akbulut, Serkan Altinova, Ahmet Tunc Ozdemir   +6 more
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Bending the Learning Curve [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
This paper aims at improving the application of the learning curve, a popular tool used for forecasting future costs of renewable technologies in integrated assessment models (IAMs). First, we formally discuss under what assumptions the traditional (OLS) estimates of the learning curve can deliver meaningful predictions in IAMs.
Witajewski Baltvilks, Jan, Verdolini, Elena, TAVONI, MASSIMO   +2 more
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The Variance Learning Curve

Management Science, 2020
The expansive learning curve literature in operations management has established how various facets of prior experience improve average performance. In this paper, we explore how increased cumulative experience affects performance variability or consistency.
Hessam Bavafa, Jónas Oddur Jónasson
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Behind the Learning Curve

Annals of Business Administrative Science, 2013
The learning curve depicts a decrease in production cost per unit as cumulative volume increases. However, a learning curve does not realize even if the history of production translates into an increase of cumulative volume. It is major premises for cost
Nobuo TAKAHASHI
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Retiring the Learning Curve [PDF]

Obesity Surgery, 2009
Tom Chalmers was a great American advocate for the power of metaanalyses and the adjudication of doubt through randomized controlled trials. He was famous for his admonition to randomize with the first patient in a trial and for his abhorrence of the learning curve in clinical therapeutics. A scientific icon, Dr.
Buchwald H, SCOPINARO, NICOLA
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Learning Learning Curves [PDF]

Pattern Analysis and Applications
Contains fulltext : 314824.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Taylan Turan, O., Tax, David M.J., Viering, Tom J., Loog, M.   +3 more
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Assessing Textbook Outcome After Implementation of Transversus Abdominis Release in a Regional Hospital

Journal of Abdominal Wall Surgery, 2022
Background: The posterior component separation technique with transversus abdominis release (TAR) was introduced in 2012 as an alternative to the classic anterior component separation technique (Ramirez).
Johannes A. Wegdam, Dite L. C. de Jong, Tammo S. de Vries Reilingh, Ellis E. Schipper, Nicole D. Bouvy, Simon W. Nienhuijs   +5 more
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The Learning Curve – A Neurosurgeon’s Memoir

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
Venkataraman Sundaram
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Prostate Cancer Detection by Novice Micro-Ultrasound Users Enrolled in a Training Program

Société Internationale d’Urologie Journal, 2022
ObjectiveMicro-ultrasound is an imaging modality used to visualize and target prostate cancer during transrectal or transperineal biopsy. We evaluated the effectiveness of a micro-ultrasound training program and estimated the learning curve for prostate ...
Hannes Cash, Sebastian Hofbauer, Neal Shore, Christian P. Pavlovich, Stephan Bulang, Martin Schostak, Erik Planken, Joris J. Jaspars, Ferdinand Luger, Laurence Klotz, Georg Salomon   +10 more
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