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Should There Have Been a Polis in Aristotle’s Poetics?

[Reimbursement of generics in Croatia: should more have been done?].

BACKGROUND while numerous ordinances on drug pricing and reimbursement have been enacted, trying to suppress the drug expenditure in Croatia, it seemed there were inconsistencies in pricing procedures of some of the drugs. OBJECTIVES to show whether or not the pricing system given has had the desired result, we review pricing and reimbursement systems of generics in some of the EU countries a...

Inferences for Likelihood Ratios

Likelihood ratios are extensively used to evaluate the performances of diagnostic tests and to update prior odds of disease to posttest odds. Since few tests are truly 100% accurate, including many used as “gold standards,” it is important to be able to estimate likelihood ratios in cases where no such standard is available. In this paper, methods to calculate point and interval estimates for l...

Stable isotopes in subtidal food webs: Have enriched carbon ratios in benthic consumers been misinterpreted?

We examined the hypothesis that the d13C of benthic consumers is depleted in offshore, deeper waters where kelp and benthic microalgae are absent by conducting three analyses: (1) we analyzed d13C (and d15N) of consumers along a nearshore–offshore gradient in the field, (2) we analyzed d13C (and d15N) of consumers placed in cages at various depths and distances from shore, and (3) we reexamined...

The trouble with likelihood ratios.

ity scale for clinicians is symmetrically skewed in both directions. In primary care, elective surgery, and oncology, clinicians work at the extremes of the probability scale. The time has come to apply the Feynman-Tufte principle to clinical logic, to offer a visual representation of Bayesian logic. Earlier attempts with natural logarithmics do not allow a simple graphic. We teach a scale of l...