Sentence examples for direct utilities from inspiring English sources

They cannot be used to accurately predict direct utilities for particular health states.

Yet the same respondents gave direct utilities of 0.82 (time trade off) and 0.91 (standard gamble) for the condition.

In figure 2, all but nine of 86 points lie above the horizontal line, reflecting the tendency for direct utilities to exceed indirect utilities.

For direct utilities, standard gamble alone was used in 23 of the 83 comparisons, time trade off alone in 26, and both in 34.

Those who prefer direct methods, but who wish to exploit the convenience of indirect methods, might propose using a simple correction to map indirect utilities onto the putatively more valid direct utilities.

In each case the scores from the direct method were regressed on the scores from the indirect method, to test the hypothesis that direct utilities could be predicted by applying a linear correction to the indirect utilities.

Scripts were written to query the NCBI SRA database, which utilizes the "esearch" tool of the NCBI entrez direct utility with the search term "biomol rna [PROP] AND Homo sapiens [orgn:___txid9606] AND (RNA-seq or rnaseq)." Next, the "efetch" and "xtract" tools of the NCBI entrez direct utility were used to fetch the metadata available from the SRA database and to parse them.

There is no direct utility bill reduction to Babcock residents because of it.

Results of this work are of direct utility for engineering design of large-scale technical rotary kilns.

The ASI may be right that, from the point of view of the vast majority of employers, arts degrees have no direct "utility".

Results show that the expected return and the standard deviation of the compromise solution are both smaller than those solutions from the direct utility function method.