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Applied Sciences, 2022 The ongoing pandemic has resulted in the development of models dealing with the rate of virus spread and the modelling of mortality rates μx,t. A new method of modelling the mortality rates μx,t with different time intervals of higher and lower ...
Piotr Sliwka, Leslaw Socha
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The credibility of health economic models for health policy decision-making: the case of population screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm [PDF]
, 2007 <i>Objectives</i>: To review health economic models of population screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) among elderly males and assess their credibility for informing decision-making. <i>Methods</i>: A literature review
Briggs, A.H. +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash +4 more
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Ensemble Modelling for Predicting Fish Mortality
Applied SciencesThis paper proposes a novel ensemble approach, integrating Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Symbolic Regression (SR), and Decision Trees (DTs), to predict fish mortality caused by infectious diseases.
Theofanis Aravanis +2 more
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Mortality modelling with arrival of additional year of mortality data: Calibration and forecasting [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: For commonly used mortality models, the existing estimates change with the recalibration of new data. This issue is also known as the lack of the new-data-invariant property.
Kenny Kam Kuen Mok +3 more
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Modelling distributed lag effects in epidemiological time series studies [PDF]
, 2001 The paper argues that much of the existing literature on air pollution and mortality deals only with the transient effects of air pollution. Policy, on the other hand, needs to know when, whether and to what extent pollution-induced increases in ...
Maddison, D.
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Coherent modeling of mortality patterns for age-specific subgroups [PDF]
, 2019 The recent actuarial literature has shown that mortality patterns and trajectories in closely related populations are similar in some respects and that small differences are unlikely to increase in the long run.
Giordano, G. +2 more
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ARMA Models for Mortality Forecast
Lietuvos statistikos darbai, 2016 In the last several decades, many countries have been paying a lot of attention to mortality forecastingbecause of high longevity risk. The purpose of this paper is to analyze mortality characteristics of Baltic countries andmake predictions using ARMA models.
Šiškina, Natalja, Šiaulys, Jonas
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim +8 more
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A linear algebraic method for pricing temporary life annuities and insurance policies [PDF]
, 2010 We recast the valuation of annuities and life insurance contracts under mortality and interest rates, both of which are stochastic, as a problem of solving a system of linear equations with random perturbations.
Date, P, Jalen, L, Mamon, R, Wang, IC
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