AIMS AND METHOD The aim of the study was to investigate whether psychiatrists consider that patients with schizophrenia present a greater risk of violence than patients with other forms of mental illness. Two pairs of clinical vignettes were devised. In each pair, one contained a history of violence and one did not. One vignette was mailed to each of 2000 consultant psychiatrists in the UK. Res...

Abstract Background A vignette is a short description of person or situation designed to simulate key features real- world scenario. Usually this then presented relevant professionals solicit their hypothetical response behaviour. In medical literature, vignettes are mostly used study clinical judgments, compare hospital prices, self-assess health examine how age, sex, socioeconomic insurance s...

Abstract Evidence shows that people have difficulty understanding complex aspects of retirement planning, which leads them to under-utilize annuities and claim Social Security benefits earlier than is optimal. To target this problem, we developed vignettes about the consequences different annuitization claiming decisions. We evaluated our using an experiment with a representative online panel n...

This vignette outlines the implementation of the regression spline method contained in the R crs package, and also presents a few illustrative examples.

In this vignette we are going to show how we got the RData pbcmcData.RData which can be loaded via the MIGSAdata package using data(pbcmcData).

This is the vignette of the Bioconductor compliant packege adSplit . We describe our implementation of annotationdriven clustering for microarray gene expression profiling studies. Corresponding author: [email protected]

In this package we implement random variables by means of S4 classes and methods. This vignette corresponds to Appendix D.2 in Kohl (2005) [3].

This vignette introduces the gsl package of R utilities for accessing the functions of the GSL package. An earlier version of this document was published as Hankin (2006).

This patient-centered case vignette offers insight into how best to choose among additional oral agents, basal insulin, or the newer GLP-1 receptor agonists.