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. 1998 Nov;13(11):762-7.
doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00229.x.

Avoidable errors in health policy analysis

D A Asch  1 , J C Hershey
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Avoidable errors in health policy analysis

D A Asch et al. J Gen Intern Med. 1998 Nov.

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  • J Gen Intern Med 1999 Jun;14(6):363
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Four alternative strategies for allocating two doses of vaccine to two islanders. The center column shows how the risks are distributed to each individual: the notation (1,1) indicates that both individuals die; the notation (0,1) indicates that only the second individual dies, and so on. The right column shows the risks in aggregate, without regard to the distribution of fatalities across individuals. (Adapted from Keeney and Winkler.)
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The news vendor problem. Newspaper cost is 30 cents, price is 50 cents, and salvage value is 20 cents. Each cell shows the profit for a given order level (supply) and realized demand. What is the news vendor's return in the lower left cell, where the demand for papers exceeds supply?
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Figure Indeterminacy of test-retest correlations. The two lines show the combinations of test-retest correlations that could produce a combined correlation of 0.6, given disease prevalences of 0.50 and 0.05. The sensitivity of the test is 0.65 and the specificity is 0.96. The points A and B are described in the text.
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