Soft reliability information in the form of log-likelihood ratio (LLR) is exchanged between the inner and the outer decoders to successively refine the decision.
We used formative research and cognitive testing to develop and refine the decision aid.
The study team will meet for at least 45 minutes each week to discuss and refine the decision context and model development.
We are currently studying these materials in a randomized controlled trial to examine their influence on treatment decisions in African Americans [ 32], and we are designing additional studies to help further refine the decision aid.
He peppers the merchants with questions, in a kind of commercial catechism designed both to refine the decisions being made and to instruct his charges in the rigors of merchandising.
Preoperative knowledge of the presence of these negative prognostic molecular markers would refine the decision-making algorithm in high-risk PTC patients (according to conventional risk stratification schemes).
Forty years later, the Supreme Court finally caught up with Justice Brandeis, refining the Olmstead decision in two separate cases.
Several resources were leveraged for developing and refining the screening mammography decision aid throughout 2010 and into the first half of 2011.
The SSA responded both by refining the regulations guiding decisions, and by negotiating agreements with various states.
These findings should be confirmed, as they may help to shape strategies for refining the health-related decision-making process among Hispanics.
