Though binary choice and multiple choice models have been a popular tool of microeconometrics for many years, there are macroeconomic time series that are connected with discrete decisions of authorities. Therefore it is very important to develop an appropriate tool for statistical inference for such macroeconomic time series. Macroeconomic continuous time series may be stationary as well as in...

The aim of this study was to investigate the underlying reasons for parents’ decisions about their children’s diets. This study used the projective methodologies of picture response and third-person techniques (projective questioning), which are designed to elicit people’s underlying motivations, beliefs, attitudes and concerns, particularly those beliefs which people find hard to articulate. W...

While great strides have been made in persuading the public to become potential organ donors, actual behavior has not yet caught up with the nearly universally favorable attitudes the public expresses toward donation. This paper explores the issue by situating the social marketing of organ donation against a broader backdrop of entertainment and news media coverage of organ donation. Organ dona...

OBJECTIVES Our aim was to report on doctors' descriptions of their current post at about 12 years after qualification, in respect of academic content, and to compare this with their long-term intentions. By academic content, we mean posts that are designated as clinical academic posts or clinical service posts that include research and/or teaching commitments. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. P...

The likely basis of our natural aversion to cost-saving initiatives stems from fears that costs will override considerations for effectiveness and that costs are an unfair, biased, and distasteful frame of reference for guiding clinical decisions where life and limb are at stake. Yet, blanket prohibition of cost considerations in clinical decision-making is a ticket to disaster and is based on ...

Experimental decision-making research often uses a task in which participants are presented with alternatives from which they must choose. Although tasks of this type may be useful in determining measures (e.g., preference) related to explicitly stated alternatives, they neglect an important aspect of many real-world decision-making environments—namely, the option-generation process. The goal o...

In this paper we describe the design and initial data analysis of an ongoing study that aims to determine the important elements, as perceived by faculty, of the learning and teaching of problem solving in the context of the introductory calculus based physics course. To elicit instructors’ beliefs that inform their instructional choices we designed an interview around three concrete situations...

This work studies the parameter identification problem for the Markov chain choice model of Blanchet, Gallego, and Goyal used in assortment planning. In this model, the product selected by a customer is determined by a Markov chain over the products, where the products in the offered assortment are absorbing states. The underlying parameters of the model were previously shown to be identifiable...

Most of the literature does not address the important distinction between software development methods and modelling paradigms. Lack of attention to this distinction has led to over-emphasis on one or the other (usually the method) to the detriment of the software development process. We describe the advantages of using a method or a model. The characteristic problems resulting from emphasizing...

Forecasts from Country choices, South-South partnerships and Clinton Foundation-UNITAID coalition show that present policies for brand ARVs are at the risk of flop in emerging South markets such as India, China, Thailand and Brazil.The dynamics explored in this article highlight the risks the originator companies are running in the emerging markets, along with their interest in direct agreement...