Merit Rating

Merit Rating for Doctor Professional Liability Insurance

Merit rating is the use of the insured's actual claim experience to predict future claim experience. This paper discusses merit rating for professional liability insurance for both individual doctors and group practices. The paper presents several different theoretical formulations for merit rating. Credibilities are stated in terms of the parameters of the risk process. The paper discusses sev...

Tracking the merit of merit pay

MERIT Motifs

MERIT (Multimedia Extensions of Retrieval Interaction Tools)1 provides a user-centered interface to a database covering European research programs, projects, and consortia in the field of information technology. The system supports the user by offering a selection of sample retrieval strategies, called “cases”, which are modifiable to meet situative requirements. The dialogue is focused by obje...

Merit awards.

Rating items by rating tags

Different proposals have been made in recent years to exploit Social Web tagging data to improve recommender systems. The tagging data was used for example to identify similar users or viewed as additional information about the recommendable items. In this work we propose to use tags as a means to express which features of an item users particularly like or dislike. Users would therefore not on...