Limit states design: What do we really want?

Goodness of Fit: What Do We Really Want to Know?

The goodness-of-fit problem has recently attracted attention from the particle physics community. In modern particle experiments, one often performs an unbinned likelihood fit to data. The experimenter then needs to estimate how accurately the fit function approximates the observed distribution. A number of methods have been used to solve this problem in the past [1], and a number of methods ha...

What do patients really want to know?

A 60-year-old male patient presents to his primary care physician complaining of recent fatigue. The work-up reveals iron-deficiency anaemia due to carcinoma of the ascending colon, which has extensively metastasized to the liver. Had this illness occurred in the early 1960s, when a pater-nalistic approach to medicine was at its height, the physician might have chosen to tell the patient that h...

What do your employees really want?

What do psychiatric inpatients really want?

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Do we really understand what we want or need out of antimicrobial stewardship programs ?

Department of Pathology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal University Hospital & the Saskatoon Health Region, Departments of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology & Ophthalmology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada *Author for correspondence: Tel.: +1 306 655 6943; Fax: ...