How should we modify the high energy interaction models?

How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice

Regressions with multiplicative interaction terms are widely used in the social sciences to test whether the relationship between an outcome and an independent variable changes depending on a moderator. Despite much advice on how to use interaction models, two important problems are currently overlooked in empirical practice. First, multiplicative interaction models are based on the crucial ass...

Goals of asthma treatment: how high should we go?

In the textbook "Respiratory Diseases", published in 1981, CROFTON and DOUGLAS [1] commenced the discussion of asthma management with the comment "It must be admitted that the treatment of asthma is largely palliative". The chapter provides a bleak picture of high mortality, frequent symptoms, and disabling side-effects of treatment. The use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and, later, long-act...

How Should We Teach Simulation ?

This paper deals with the issue of how one can teach simulation in the most time-efficient way. We first distinguish between different types of student as regards their background and future needs. We next look at reasons for studying simulation at a business school. Next we compare animation oriented simulators with simulation languages. We then study a list of desirable criteria for simulatio...

How should we define health?

Machteld Huber senior researcher, J André Knottnerus president, Scientific Council for Government Policy , Lawrence Green editor in chief, Oxford Bibliographies Online—public health , Henriëtte van der Horst head , Alejandro R Jadad professor , Daan Kromhout vice president, Health Council of the Netherlands , Brian Leonard professor , Kate Lorig professor , Maria Isabel Loureiro coordinator for...

How should we set priorities?