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Utility in Health Studies

2014· other· en· W1564264163 on OpenAlexaff
George W. Torrance

Bibliographic record

VenueWiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online · 2014
Typeother
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExpected utility hypothesisPreferenceMeasure (data warehouse)Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theoremEQ-5DCost–utility analysisUtility theorySubjective expected utilityQuality (philosophy)Quality-adjusted life yearIndex (typography)Quality of life (healthcare)Scale (ratio)Actuarial scienceComputer scienceMathematical economicsEconomicsHealth related quality of lifeMicroeconomicsData miningMedicineOperations managementCost effectiveness

Abstract

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Abstract Utility is a quantitative expression of strength of preference. The more something is preferred, the greater is its utility. Formal utility theory for decision making under uncertainty was defined by von Neumann & Morgenstern. Utilities in their theory are measured using the standard gamble. Alternatively, time trade‐off and visual analog scales are used to measure preferences, and these also are sometimes called utilities. Utilities are an integrative measure of health‐related quality of life. Utilities, representing quality of life can be combined with quantity of life to form quality‐adjusted life years. These, in turn, are used in cost–utility analyses. For most clinical studies, the simplest and the preferred way to measure utilities is to use one of the multiattribute health status classification systems that include a utility scoring formula; for example, EuroQol EQ‐5D, Health Utilities Index, or Quality of Well‐Being Scale.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.066
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.214
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.066
Threshold uncertainty score0.349

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0660.214
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0170.023
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0080.006
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.519
GPT teacher head0.508
Teacher spread0.012 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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