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Bibliographic record
Abstract
question: of the trials that show worsening of QOL, what percentage belongs to targeted drugs, cytotoxic drugs, etc? Drs King-Kallimanis et al correctly state that 14% of targeted drug trials reported worsened QOL compared with 8% of cytotoxic drug trials. We reported that 50% of trials with worsened QOL were targeted drug trials vs 17% belonging to cytotoxic drugs, which is also a correct statement. Looking at the data from both perspectives reveals a higher percentage with worsened QOL for targeted drugs than for cytotoxic drugs. We agree with the authors that a future study with a larger sample size allowing us to control for issues such as statistical hierarchy would be a valuable way to further explore these issues. However, we disagree that our results will be used by patients to make decisions on therapy because such treatment decisions should be made based on the benefits, risks, and QOL outcomes of the specific therapy in question and not the results of pooled analysis across tumor types and drug classes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".