The variable importance may be expressed as a percentage of the accuracy obtained with the most important SNP, and provides insight in the level of association of the SNP with the disease.
Policy makers may to better grasp a categorization of diseases when expressed in qualitative terms (low, middle and high importance), than when expressed as a continuous number.
Some such sites only emphasised the health value of breastmilk for preterm infants, for example the importance of expressing as ' uniquely contributing to the wellbeing and development of her baby' (TS4: preterm infants subsection).
The ACA analysing program (version 5.2.2, Sawtooth Software, Sequim, WA, USA) estimates how highly participants value each outcome probability and computes participants' relative importance score for each outcome, expressed as a percentage (importance scores add up to 100%) (ACA 5.0 Technical Paper, 2005).
LR ¯ – the per alignment mean likelihood ratio of a nuGTR + Param against the corresponding nuGTR; % ¯ (SE) – the per alignment mean (and standard error) relative importance of a parameter, expressed as a percentage of the diGTR LR; Rank ¯ (SE) – the per alignment mean (and standard error) rank of the LR.
The relative contribution of each x-variable to the PLS model (i.e., the correlation to Y and the relative importance in the X-block) is expressed as a VIP-value (variable importance in the projection).
We assessed the relative merits of using VAS and CRS to elicit values by comparing their distributions, response rates, and expected utilities expressed as relative importance scores (RIS), as described in Appendix S1.
Ordinal variables (e.g., scoring of the importance of risk factors) were expressed as medians with interquartile (IQR) ranges and box-and-whisker plots.
The recognition of needing to strengthen these parts could also be expressed as understanding the importance of where a delivery takes place (11).
Table 2 illustrates the differences between importance and preparation for various skills expressed as percentage of respondents indicating 1 or 2 on the Likert scale versus 4 or 5.
