Basic reference statistics in current prices (reference period: calendar year, 2012, 2015, 2019)

Proximal Deictic Temporal Reference with Calendar Units

Today's talk presents initial results of ongoing research. We will consider here some of the properties of three types of expressions employing linguistic calendar terms: the fundamental units (day, year, week, month), parts of the day and the (named) days of the week. The fundamental units have been examined (to varying degrees of depth) in some 20 languages of various language families. The o...

Reference Guide on Statistics

© 2008 D.H. Kaye & D.A. Freedman. This chapter was submitted to the National Academy of Sciences in August, 2008, for publication in the third edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, then scheduled for publication in 2009. David Freedman died on October 17, 2008. The Academy completed its reviews in December, 2010. The first author responded to these reviews and made several cha...

(SAID’s Search of Dental Literature Published in Calendar Year 2012*)

Reference Pricing, Generic Entry, and Pharmaceutical Prices

In this paper we study the impact of reference pricing (RP) on entry of generic firms in the pharmaceutical market. For given prices, RP increases generic firms’expected profit, but since RP also stimulates price competition the impact on generic entry is theoretically ambiguous. In order to empirically test the effects of RP, we exploit a policy reform in Norway in 2005 that exposed a subset o...

Increase in Ocular Syphilis Cases at Ophthalmologic Reference Center, France, 2012–2015

We describe the frequency, demographic and clinical features, and visual outcomes of ocular syphilis infections observed during 2012-2015 at a tertiary reference center in Paris, France. Twenty-one cases (29 eyes) were identified. The occurrence of ocular syphilis increased from 1 case in 2012 to 5 cases in 2013, 6 cases in 2014, and 9 cases in 2015 (2.22-25.21/1,000 individual patients/year fo...