Calculating cancer drug value

Seeking value as cancer drug costs soar.

As significant increases in the costs of cancer drugs cause financial difficulties for many U.S. patients, some oncologists suggest that changes in pricing policies at the federal and state levels are inevitable.

Mistake in Calculating the Positive Predictive Value

As I read the study by Bakhtiari et al. (1), I noticed that they miscalculated the positive predictive value. They indicated that the positive predictive value of the PCR assay was 100%. But when I placed the values on the table and calculated the positive predictive value of the PCR assay, I found it 83.3%.

Calculating Concentration-Sensitive Capital Charges with Conditional Value-at-Risk

By mid 2004, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is expected to launch its final recommendations on minimum capital requirements in the banking industry. Although there is the intention to arrive at capital charges which concur with economic intuition, the risk weight formulas proposed by the committee will lack an adequate treatment of concentration risks in credit portfolios. Th...

Calculating value during uncertainty: Getting real with “real options”

The values behind calculating the value of trophy hunting.

Naidoo et al. (2016) assessed benefits from hunting and tourism in Namibia from 1998 to 2013 at 77 communal conservancies, which provide community-based wildlife conservation. They found that hunting and tourism each generates roughly the same economic value and that if trophy hunting were banned, some conservancies would be unable to cover their operating costs. As a result, the authors conclu...