Our purpose is to use all the data in order to increase the precision of decisions.
Despite the aesthetics of economic evaluation models and the precision of computation, decision analyses may oversimplify complex decisions [ 41, 42].
While it is time-consuming to construct the model for each subject, it has the advantage of considering the individual differences and can enhance the precision of timing decision.
The diagnostic accuracy of the decision protocol was assessed according to the STARD procedure on validation.[21] The classification performance was assessed by calculating the precision of the decision to treat, sensitivity, specificity, and odds ratios.
The sensitivity, specificity, and predicted precision of the decision to treat individuals was then calculated for cut-off points representing integer values of BMI between 16 and 20 at age 5.
A novel approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with spine-related disorders is presented that may help to improve the precision of medical decision making and thus improve treatment outcome.
Since evidence theory has shown high efficiency in handling uncertain information, an evidence fusion-based framework for condition evaluation has been presented in this paper to improve the certainty and precision of evaluation decisions by fusing features extracted from different sources of evidence.
This can enhance the precision of perceptual decisions relative to those made on the basis of a single source of information.
Two types of observation are often taken as evidence, subjective reports concerning changed perceptual content [1] [6] and changes in the precision of perceptual decisions [7] [9].
Improvements in the precision of perceptual decisions can provide stronger evidence, but here too findings can be ambiguous, as the provision of multiple independent sources of information can lead to improved sensitivity in the absence of sensory integration [10] [13].
However, the degree of improvement in the precision of sensory decisions, when two cues are available as opposed to just one, can be diagnostic of the underlying computational process.
