To Hollywood, this kind of behavior typically means "Cast her as the crazy one!" But Simon West, looking for a slam-dunk actress to play the cyber-babe Lara Croft in his $100 million big screen version of the video game "Tomb Raider," found a usefulness for Ms. Jolie's bad girl act.
We are fully aware of the limitations of the c statistic as a measure for clinical usefulness of a predictive model - that is why we did not base our conclusions only on the lack of improvement of the c statistic, but also on the deteriorating ability to predict mortality [ 1].
In the 1950s, having the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the bookshelf was akin to a station wagon in the garage or a black-and-white Zenith in the den, a possession coveted for its usefulness and as a goalpost for an aspirational middle class.
A very important factor for the usefulness of a database is the accessibility and user-friendliness of its interface.
Searching for meaningful time series trends is an important and common task in scientific work and the statistical significance of a linear trend fit to the time series is often used for classifying the usefulness of a trend [1], [2].
Back in 1992, our correspondent investigated the resurgence in academic support for the usefulness of a concept called "beta", a form of measuring asset-price risk, in the investment-management industry.
This probability is a measure for the usefulness of the profile for comparison with a suspect's profile or comparison with profiles in a database.
Under such conditions, when de facto highly potent therapeutics are compromised by prior use of another potent agent, indicative biologic markers for the usefulness of a subsequent therapy are required.
Herein we describe a method to solubilize and purify rmCRP and present evidence for its usefulness as a comparable and effective reagent for examining the differential characteristics of mCRP.
A cited reference can perhaps be considered as a reward for the usefulness of the cited paper [14].
