Nomon reaps gains in information rate by allowing the specification of beliefs (priors) about option selection probabilities and by avoiding tree-based selection schemes in favor of direct (posterior) inference.
A description of the options, probabilities of benefits and harms for each option, and video-clips of patient experiences allows patients to clarify their values associated with outcomes of options.
If the stationary choice probability vanishes for some option, pa = 0, we can forbid the changes in this direction (dpa = 0), and R should have identical components for all the options exhibiting non-zero choice probabilities.
For each option, the probability of each outcome was entered into the model to calculate expected rates of death or recovery.
In this search, the expectation value (-e option, a probability cutoff value) was set to 1e-5 and the -b option (number of database sequences to show) was set to 1000.
At several places in the algorithm, we choose an option 'with probability according to its score.' In general, the score refers to the total score of NMR edges matched to contact graph edges (refer again to the graph definition for our scoring function).
Alternately, one might modify rater training to change option endorsement probabilities.
In our task, subjects were required to compare valuations across domains in other words, to make a choice between a learned-probability option and a described-probability option.
Model branches and subtrees were identical for both BCG program options, and probabilities for movement into different states affected by vaccination (disseminated BCG infection and TB disease states) were linked between cohorts using expressions of relative risk [ 12].
When we developed the decision aid, the IPDAS criteria for decision aids had not yet been published [ 65], but the decision aid does comply with most of the these criteria, namely using a systematic development process, providing information about options, presenting probabilities, disclosing conflicts of interests and using plain language.
