The third-party motor insurance data from Sweden for 1977 described by Andrews and Herzberg in 1985 contain average claim occurrence rate (P c ) , size (C a category of vehicles specified the kilometres travelled per year (K), geographical zone (Z), no claims bonus (B) make car (M). categorical variables Z M may first be represented respectively vectors (Z 1 2 … 6 (M 8 binary variables. variabl...

A large number of studies have identified trajectories of adjustment following acute and aversive life events. In these studies, a stable trajectory of positive health or resilience is almost always the modal outcome (Bonanno, 2004; Bonanno et al., 2011). Infurna and Luthar (2016, this issue) reported that they replicated findings from two early studies in which trajectories of subjective well-...

Medical malpractice may be defined as damage suffered by a patient resulting from professional negligence on the part of the carer.2 Modern medicine is an art of healing and caring backed by scientific evidence. Doctors can promise in good faith to do their best for patients but they cannot warrant cure or desirable outcomes. It is clear therefore that mere damage is not a sufficient condition ...

The fixation properties of a simple prisoner's dilemma game in the presence of "cooperation facilitators" have recently been investigated in finite and well-mixed populations for various dynamics [Mobilia, Phys. Rev. E 86, 011134 (2012)]. In a Comment, Miękisz claims that, for cooperation to be favored by selection in the standard prisoner's dilemma games with facilitators, it suffices that f(C...

In a recent issue of TREE, Coleman and Gross’ claim that if life history theory is incorporated, it appears that the Concorde fallacy, originally proposed by Dawkin+, is itself a fallacy. They conclude that ‘There is no role for the Concorde fallacy in understanding parental-investment theory’. In this last comment they may be right. However, the idea is not new. Dawkins, in The Exrended fhenor...