Of the cardiovascular conditions rated in the current study, acute stroke was the least preferred health state with the lowest mean utility and the greatest proportion of negative utility scores (15.5%).
The average fuel economy of cars and trucks for sale in the United States has, meanwhile, steadily dropped, so that this year's fleet -- with its growing proportion of sport utility vehicles -- gets the worst gas mileage in 21 years, according to the government.
For older age groups, the proportion of the utility of the youngest age group was applied.
The proportion of house utilities is the number of houses that had modern utilities (e.g., running water, shower, toilet, gas or electricity as fuel) divided by the total number of houses.
For the public health view the maximal achievable utility depends on the prior π and is given by, such that the normalized utility is The normalized expected utility can then be interpreted as the proportion of the expected utility that is achieved compared to the maximum achievable utility under a certain prior and utility function.
Microsatellites also have the highest cross-species utility of all types of markers used for genotyping, but, despite this, when isolated from a single species, only a relatively small proportion will be of utility.
A substantial proportion of patients had health utility well below normal values (75% of patients had health utility below their normal value; mean loss 0.32, 95% CI 0.31 to 0.33) and a significant proportion (11%) had health utility below zero.
However, when using the EQ-5D, HUI2, or the SF-6D utility values, the proportion of simulations that favoured the cost utility of the treatment were 63%, 45%, and 12%, respectively.
For that reason, new model years with a high proportion of pickup-based sport utilities are effectively replacing model years of vehicles from the 1970's and 1980's that had very few sport utilities.
However, if least squared estimation is used in the presence of large proportions of subjects scoring utility values of 1, the bounded nature of the utility value may result in implausible predictions outside of the existing range of the scale.
