However, the 'equivalent' mean utilities assuming an equal weighting for each level for NPRS1-3, NPRS 4-6 and NPRS7-10 are 0.93, 0.80 and 0.34.
The primary objective of this study is to provide an estimate of mean prisoner-based utilities; assuming an SF-6D standard deviation of 0.147 [ 10] and an acceptable error of 0.05, the needed sample size would be 33 [ 11], which is comparable to the usual recommendation of 30 to 60 subjects for standard gamble utility studies [ 12].
The Nokia water utility assumed that foaming of the tap water and its weird smell and taste were due to pressure changes in the water distribution network.
When you buy or rent a house, you automatically become the customer of the local utility, assuming that you want electricity and you don't plan to generate all of it yourself.
Proposition 1 states that, given the daily desired energy demand of a consumer, if the designer recommends to it the PO scheduling action, then the self-interested consumer will schedule no less than the PO energy consumption in peak hours in order to maximize its own utility assuming other consumers are complying with the recommended PO scheduling.
For each and prior π the utilities are normalized by the corresponding maximum achievable utility (assuming all false null hypotheses can be rejected with probability 1).
12 Intuitively the latter approach would seem to have the greatest clinical utility assuming an appropriate pathogen panel can be established.
The utilities were assumed to follow normal distributions trimmed between 0 and 1 (no utilities worse than death or >1 were accepted).
Moreover, the agents' utilities are assumed to be additively separable.
Event costs and utilities were assumed to have gamma and beta distributions, respectively.
