We used outcome variance and EV of gambles to identify participants' utility function (Bossaerts & Hsu, 2008).
Although chronic stroke had a higher utility than acute stroke, the chronic stroke health state was also considered quite aversive by most participants (utility = 0.52).
Statistically significant differences (p < 0.0001) were also found between 1.0 (no problems on any EQ-5D dimension) and each level of migraine pain severity, and also between current health (without migraine) and every level of migraine pain severity (p < 0.0001)—indicating that migraine significantly and negatively affects participants' utility.
This failure is due to the interdependency of the participants' utilities.
Moreover, the DC-PM auction mechanism is superior to the MDC-PM auction mechanism with respect to participants' utilities and can maintain the strict lexicographic allocation order, and the MDC-PM auction mechanism outperforms the DC-PM auction mechanism in terms of welfare efficiency and platform's payoff.
The scatter plots of each of the participants' utilities, as determined by the FT ratings of the health states, and the VTE thresholds will be examined to evaluate the relation between participant utilities and their VTE threshold.
visual analogue scale (VAS) and SG utility methods (Torrance, 1986; Bennett and Torrance, 1996) were used to elicit participants' utilities for the health states.
We will generate a "personalized decision analysis" using participants' utilities and their personalized risk of recurrent VTE as inputs to a decision analytic model.
To evaluate the consistency between participant utilities for health states and b (that is, the number of additional bleeds per stroke prevented at the point of switch from warfarin to aspirin in the probability trade-off exercise) we will examine scatter plots of each of the utilities and b.
With a focus upon usability for participants and utility for researchers, the paper describes the diary design in full, assessing its efficacy with reference to focus group, interview and questionnaire data, alongside lessons from the analysis.
Last November, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NAERCC) orchestrated a two-day training exercise called GridEx II, involving more than 2,000 participants from utility companies, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, schools, businesses, and a number of other industries.
