Clarifying the role of an unavailable distractor in human multiattribute choice [PDF]
eLife, 2022 Decisions between two economic goods can be swayed by a third unavailable ‘decoy’ alternative, which does not compete for choice, notoriously violating the principles of rational choice theory.
Yinan Cao, Konstantinos Tsetsos
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Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of minimal important differences for generic multiattribute utility instruments [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction Generic multiattribute utility instruments (MAUIs) are efficient tools for determining and enumerating health-related quality of life. MAUIs accomplish this by generating health state utilities (HSUs) via algorithms.
Andrew J Palmer +9 more
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Fundamental Measurement: The Need Fulfilment Quality of Life (N-QOL) Measure [PDF]
INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2021 The quality adjusted life year (QALY) has serious problems related to its failure to adhere to measurement theory. If a QALY is to be meaningful, the utility score that translates time spent to an equivalent time spent in so-called perfect health must ...
Paul C. Langley, Stephen P. McKenna
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Axioms of Diagnostic Urgency: A Characterization Theorem [PDF]
EntropyDiagnostic prioritization, deciding which diagnoses in a differential should be evaluated first, is fundamental to emergency medicine but lacks a formal foundation.
Pedram Safari, Amal Mohamed, Shuhan He
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A multiattribute utility evaluation of different methods for the detection of enteric protozoa causing diarrhea in AIDS patients [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2010 Background Enteric protozoa and sporozoa have emerged as important opportunistic parasites and can cause fatal infections in AIDS patients. The line of treatment being different for them necessitates an accurate and prompt identification of these to ...
Sundar Shyam +4 more
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MAUT method – one in a multiple criteria decision-making methods
Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, 2023 Multiple criteria decision-making methods enable to choose the optimal decision, if his criterions is contradictorys. In herein paper is describe MAUT – multiattribute utility theory. This method is reasoned in theory.
Rūta Simanavičienė
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Successful everyday decision making: Combining attributes and associates [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 How do people make everyday decisions in order to achieve the most successful outcome? Decision making research typically evaluates choices according to their expected utility.
Adrian P. Banks, David M. Gamblin
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STOCHASTIC MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY MODEL
Acta Economica, 2019 In real situations, the attribute value (mostly variable) can be best represented by introducing the finite number of attribute values level, to which the corresponding probabilities should also be attached.
Katarina Račić +3 more
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Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2022 A decision-making method with double reference points was built to address the multiattribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem to better reflect the influences of bottom-line and target on group decision-making behaviors.
Xiaolin Cai +4 more
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Research on Incentive Utility Multi-attribute decision-making Model and its Application [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 This paper puts forward the concept of incentive utility, which converts the value of each attribute in multi-attribute decision-making into a unified index for measurement, thus simplifying multi-attribute decision-making. In this paper, a comprehensive
Mi Wen +4 more
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