Abstract We first provide a detailed proof of Kato’s classification theorem log p -divisible groups over Noetherian Henselian local ring. Exploring idea further, we then define the notion standard extension classical finite étale group scheme (resp. group) by flat in category Kummer schemes groups), with respect to given chart on base. These results are used prove that formally smooth. study $T...

BACKGROUND Valid estimates of health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) are often difficult to obtain from persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and family caregiver proxies. To help assess whether the general public can serve as an alternate source of proxy HRQoL estimates in AD, we examined whether the general public can use vignettes to discriminate between AD health states. METHODS We admini...

Though commonly used, the unigram is widely known as being a poor model of term frequency; it assumes that term occurrences are independent, whereas many words, especially topic-oriented ones, tend to occur in bursts. Herein, we propose a model of term frequency that treats words independently, but allows for much higher variance in frequency values than does the unigram. Although it has valuab...

BACKGROUND Generic preference-based health-related quality of life instruments are widely used to measure health benefit within economic evaluation. The availability of multiple instruments raises questions about their relative merits and recent studies have highlighted the paucity of evidence regarding measurement properties in the context of spinal cord injury (SCI). This qualitative study ex...

AIMS To investigate the feasibility of discrete choice experiments for valuing EQ-5D-5L states using computer-based data collection, the consistency of the estimated regression coefficients produced after modeling the preference data, and to examine the similarity of the values derived across countries. METHODS Data were collected in Canada, England, The Netherlands, and the United States (US...