The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), a 5-item instrument 7 response-categories per item, measures cognitive judgments of satisfaction one's life using summative scoring where higher score implies satisfaction. Discrete scores SWLS Likert-type items fail to satisfy equidistant property and do not consider distributions item or scale scores. paper gives an assumption-free method convert conti...

Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as they decide between multiple candidates by a given social choice method. We consider that apply scoring methods such plurality, Borda, antiplurality rule. Many induce the same mapping from committee members’ preferences winning candidates. The respective weight equivalence classe...

9.0 g/dl, patients were transfused on average at 6.8 and 7.9 g/dl, respectively, and all 13 protocol deviations in the liberal group occurred when patients with a hemoglobin less than 9.0 g/dl were not transfused (compared to all 7 deviations in the restrictive group occurring when transfusions were given to patients with hemoglobin greater than 7.0 g/dl). Patients in the liberal group received...