A Swiss Pocket Knife for Computability

Jackknife Hervé Abdi ⋅

The jackknife or “leave one out” procedure is a cross-validation technique first developed by Quenouille to estimate the bias of an estimator. John Tukey then expanded the use of the jackknife to include variance estimation and tailored the name of jackknife because like a jackknife—a pocket knife akin to a Swiss army knife and typically used by boy scouts—this technique can be used as a “quick...

Swiss-CHAT: Citizens Discuss Priorities for Swiss Health Insurance Coverage

Background As universal health coverage becomes the norm in many countries, it is important to determine public priorities regarding benefits to include in health insurance coverage. We report results of participation in a decision exercise among residents of Switzerland, a high-income country with a long history of universal health insurance and deliberative democracy.   Methods We adapted the...

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  Introduction: Swiss plus dental implant is one of the many different implant systems that have been proposed recently. The aim of this study was to evaluate survival rate of Swiss plus dental implants and surrounding soft and hard tissue based clinical and radiographic parameters.   Materials & Methods: In a post perspective observational descriptive study, 106 patients (47 women and 59 men) ...

Multipurpose Identity-Based Sign ryption A Swiss Army Knife for Identity-Based Cryptography

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): a biochemical Swiss Army knife in neuroinflammation and neuroprotection?