We applied a computational model derived from behavioral economic principles to uncover latent decision-making mechanisms that may be invisible in simple choice analyses.
The observed decline in informed choices is mainly due to decreased knowledge scores over time and measuring latent decision-making appears to be useful.
To do so we compared models from two to four latent classes; decision about number of latent classes was made on the basis of information criteria and Lo, Mendel, and Rubin [ 20] adjusted Likelihood Ratio test.
d Latent informed decisions consisted of sufficient post-test knowledge, and aligned attitudes and decisions at follow-up.
This model allows us to study whether the changes that are predicted by the optimal-observer model are reflected by changes in latent variables in the decision process.
Vincent and colleagues 14 adapted Reason's Swiss Cheese model to patient safety, and described management decisions and latent failures that can influence error and create conditions that produce safety violations.
They used the joint probability of an individual's health insurance choice and healthcare demand to estimate the distribution of latent variables influencing both decisions and examined the effects of health insurance plans on medical care use by using the MSL estimation method.
Without an intuitive way to choose the number of latent classes in LCM, the decision is often made on the basis of goodness-of-fit measures [27, 39].
The rise of big data has led to new demands for machine learning (ML) systems to learn complex models, with millions to billions of parameters, that promise adequate capacity to digest massive datasets and offer powerful predictive analytics (such as high-dimensional latent features, intermediate representations, and decision functions) thereupon.
Although the results may differ for other assumptions and parameter values relating to the decision-making process, these results show how disease latent period, vaccine latent period and decision-making can interact to produce a wide range of results at the population level.
