The uncertainty attendant to burden-of-illness estimates should be taken into account in comparing the public health impact of different foodborne pathogens. In this paper, decision analysis concepts are applied to the comparisons of pathogen-specific burden-of-illness estimates. In situations...

Women are stereotyped as more risk averse than men. Empirical and experimental investigations seem to support the stereotype, yet they tackle different and often unrelated aspects. Reliable predictions on gender specific differences in risky choices are hardly possible since there is no common...

We consider iterative trust region algorithms for the unconstrained minimization of an objective function <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$F ( \underline{x})$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\underline{x}\in \mathcal{R}^{n}$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, when F is differentiable but no derivatives are available, and when each model of F is a linear or a quadratic polynomial. The...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation>

Based on this review there is a dearth of up-to-date, robust evidence on the cost effectiveness of radiotherapy in cancer suitable to support decision making in the UK. Studies selected did not fully satisfy essential method standards currently recommended by NICE. </AbstractSection> Copyright The Author(s) 2014