The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review’s (ICER’s) Evidence Rating Matrix is a comparative clinical effectiveness decision tool that distills an intervention’s net health benefit its uncertainty into ordered categorical grades. ICER assessments also estimate incremental lifetime quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) through cost-effectiveness modeling. This analysis aims to explore the rel...

CD0-type spaces were firstly introduced by Yu. A. Abramovich and A. W. Wickstead in [1] and [2] and further investigated by S. Alpay and Z. Ercan in [3]. CD0-type spaces deserve to be called Abramovich–Wickstead spaces, or briefly AW -space as in [4], since they mainly stem from the works of Yu. A. Abramovich and A. W. Wickstead. In this note we construct a new type AW -space and call it CDr 0 ...

Zhedanov’s algebra AW (3) is considered with explicit structure constants such that, in the basic representation, the first generator becomes the second order q-difference operator for the Askey–Wilson polynomials. It is proved that this representation is faithful for a certain quotient of AW (3) such that the Casimir operator is equal to a special constant. Some explicit aspects of the double ...

We describe a prediction method called “Attractivity Weighting” (AW). In the case of cue-based paired comparison tasks, AW predicts a weighted average of the cue values of the most successful cues. In many situations, AW’s prediction is based on the cue value of the most successful cue, resulting in behavior similar to Take-the-Best (TTB). Unlike TTB, AW has a desirable characteristic called “a...