Oscillometric Blood Pressure (BP) monitors are omnipresent and used on a daily basis for personalized healthcare. Nevertheless, physicians generally approach these devices cautiously since the mercury Korotko sphygmomanometer remains the golden standard. Various reasons explain the hesitating attitude of the medical world towards automated BP monitors: (i) its principle is based on the pressure...

In this paper we extend the PROMETHEE methods to the case of interacting criteria on a bipolar scale, introducing the bipolar PROMETHEE method based on the bipolar Choquet integral. In order to elicit parameters compatible with preference information provided by the Decision Maker (DM), we propose to apply the Robust Ordinal Regression (ROR). ROR takes into account simultaneously all the sets o...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate visual grading characteristics (VGC) and ordinal regression analysis during head CT optimisation as a potential alternative to visual grading assessment (VGA), traditionally employed to score anatomical visualisation. METHODS Patient images (n = 66) were obtained using current and optimised imaging protocols from two CT suites: a 16-slice scanner at the national Maltese...

gression enable us to investigate the relationship between a categorical outcome and a set of explanatory variables. The outcome or response can be either dichotomous (yes, no) or ordinal (low, medium, high). During dichotomous response, we are performing standard logistic regression and for ordinal response, model that uses standard logistic regression formula with feature selection using forw...

Researchers have a variety of options when choosing statistical software packages that can perform ordinal logistic regression analyses. However, statistical software, such as Stata, SAS, and SPSS, may use different techniques to estimate the parameters. The purpose of this article is to (1) illustrate the use of Stata, SAS and SPSS to fit proportional odds models using educational data; and (2...