Are utilities bounded at 1.0? Implications for statistical analysis and scale development

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 787-789

  Sullivan, Patrick W ^a  

^a REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NOTE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 80955143502     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X11400755     Document Type: Review

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