OBJECTIVE To create patient-based disability weights for individual injury diagnosis codes and nature-of-injury classifications, for use, as an alternative to panel-based weights, in studies on the burden of disease. METHODS Self-reported data based on the EQ-5D standardized measure of health status were collected from 29 770 participants in the Injury-VIBES injury cohort study, which covered...

In this study, I re-analyze data from a meta-analysis of research on the job characteristics model (Hackman & Oldham, 1980), using relative weights analysis (Johnson, 2001). This analytic technique is particularly well-suited for analyses in which one wants to most accurately determine the proportion of explained variance in a dependent variable among several independent variables, while avoidi...

We used our extension of the kernel score test to family data to analyze real and simulated baseline systolic blood pressure in extended pedigrees. We compared the power for different kernels and for different weightings of genetic markers. Moreover, we compared the power of rare and common markers with 3 strategies for joint testing and on marker panels with different densities. Marker weights...