Our case study illustrates the advantages of models that distinguish between an underlying latent condition and its measurements, and of a continuing dialogue between the modeller and the domain experts as the model is developed using knowledge as well as data.
The first three columns of coefficients contain the results for the models that distinguish between caregiving at home and caregiving elsewhere.
Figure 4 shows the results of generalised estimating equation models that distinguish effects for friends, spouses, siblings, coworkers, and neighbours.
1, 2 Consequently, it would be highly desirable to establish models that distinguish responders from nonresponders (NRs) and predict the possible outcome of the IFN-alfa/RBV treatment.
Complex interaction models that distinguish between node and link types are useful when the focus of study is on a small molecular subsystem but a hindrance when the aim is the discovery of interaction patterns across large sets of interactions.
Our survival analysis included a candidate model that distinguished no natal agriculture effect (model A7, Table S2A), but this received substantially less support than the most parsimonious model that distinguished a natal agriculture effect in a single age class (1- to 2-year-old birds) (model A6, Table S2A).
Two mathematical models were examined to explore this issue: a random mixing model and a compartmental model that distinguishes risk groups associated with sex work.
The model characteristics that distinguish the proposed models from many other models in the literature are (i) being physically adaptable to extend its range of applicability, whilst at the same time (ii) balancing accuracy and simplicity (from an analytical point of view), and (iii) containing no empirical coefficients.
Rather, it is the sort of questions that the HsW model emphasises that distinguishes it from priority setting models that are predominantly concerned with the narrower question of allocation within a program budget.
There are three existing IRT models that are distinguished from each other in the mathematical form of the item's characteristic function and/or the number of parameters which are determined by the model.
