Analysis of Simple Additive Weighting Method (SAW) as a MultiAttribute Decision-Making Technique: A Step-by-Step Guide

Sensitivity Analysis Using Simple Additive Weighting Method

The output of a multiple criteria decision method often has to be analyzed using some sensitivity analysis technique. The SAW MCDM method is commonly used in management sciences and there is a critical need for a robust approach to sensitivity analysis in the context that uncertain data is often present in decision models. Most of the sensitivity analysis techniques for the SAW method involve M...

A step-by-step guide to dopamine.

v w c i m t w d s m d e l t T here is an odd irony associated with the by-now almost ineluctable tie between reinforcement learning’s temporal difference learning rule (1) and the phasic activity of dopamine eurons (2). Although temporal difference learning was designed o enable the acquisition of whole sequences of actions and predicions, a task that its ancestors (3) would flub, there are ver...

A Step by Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Manuscript

About 50% of abstracts presented at conferences get published as full manuscripts. This manuscript is a hands-on instruction on how to publish a scientific investigation. Criteria for authorship should be based on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication. The first...

Making Ethical Decisions. A six-step process should guide ethical decision making in healthcare.

Methods to construct a step-by-step beginner’s guide to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modeling

BACKGROUND Although guidance on good research practice in health economic modeling is widely available, there is still a need for a simpler instructive resource which could guide a beginner modeler alongside modeling for the first time. AIM To develop a beginner's guide to be used as a handheld guide contemporaneous to the model development process. METHODS A systematic review of best pract...