The finding that genetic variation identified by trait GWASs partially captures environmental risk factors or protective factors has direct implications for
risk prediction models and the interpretation of GWAS findings.
In another study, Matheny et al. (2005) evaluated the discrimination and calibration of mortality
risk prediction models (logistic regression) in interventional cardiology and obtained positive results with the use of this method.
Computational methods for identifying new risk loci, training
risk prediction models, and fine - mapping causal variants from summary statistics of genome - wide association studies are playing an increasingly important role in the human genetics community.
Of particular interest to clinicians, the statement emphasizes the benefits of including information on socioeconomic position in cardiovascular
risk prediction models.»
Not exact matches
This calls into question the reliability of industry asset allocation and diversification strategies and the
prediction capability of conventional portfolio
risk modelling techniques.
To assess the robustness of the results of our regression analysis, we performed covariate adjustment with derived propensity scores to calculate the absolute
risk difference (details are provided in the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org).14, 15 To calculate the adjusted absolute
risk difference, we used predictive margins and G - computation (i.e., regression -
model — based outcome
prediction in both exposure settings: planned in - hospital and planned out - of - hospital birth).16, 17 Finally, we conducted post hoc analyses to assess associations between planned out - of - hospital birth and outcomes (cesarean delivery and a composite of perinatal morbidity and mortality), which were stratified according to parity, maternal age, maternal education, and
risk level.
Regardless of what climate
models find, investigating these long - distance links in weather could also pay off by improving
risk prediction and forecasts.
«When used in conjunction with forecasted data, the
model predictions could be useful for focusing both surveillance efforts, and the pre-positioning of material and equipment in areas and periods of particularly high
risk.
Upstate Medical University researcher Anna Stewart Ibarra, Ph.D., M.P.A., and her colleagues have created a mathematical
model that can serve as a guide to make monthly
predictions on when people are at greatest
risk for contracting mosquito - borne viruses, such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya, due to climate conditions.
Although hospitals can make
risk predictions about when individual asthma patients might return, based on medical histories, the
model created by Ram and her collaborators makes
predictions at the population level.
You should call this approach the «
Risk Generalization - Particularization»
model of medical
prediction, Jonathan Fuller and Luis Flores write in a paper to be published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
The
model is simple because its purpose is not an accurate
prediction of how best to protect VIPs, but to see what general lessons we can learn about reducing
risks and then apply them to more esoteric forms of
risk.
Predictions based on the Met Office climate
model suggest, «a rise of 400 million in the number of people at
risk from hunger», he says.
These quantifications might further help, and indeed convince, decision - makers across the world to decide on wide - scale introduction of
prediction models and
risk - based management for cardiovascular disease.»
The climate
models aren't really good enough in their representation of present - day circulation to give you much confidence in the specifics of their
predictions [so that you could use them to do a cost - benefit analysis for example], but the
risk of widespread change is still there.
The development and validation of new
risk scores with sex - specific weighting of
risk factors could be a promising tool for future
prediction models.
«Our next steps are to consider how to incorporate a prior false - positive mammogram and biopsy results into
risk -
prediction models for breast cancer,» she said.
Developing Cell Therapies: Enabling Cost
Prediction By Value Systems
Modeling to Manage Developmental
Risk.
Although the combination of measures improves classification accuracy in a
prediction model, in practice, it is difficult to discern the combination of cut scores and patterns of performance that would identify a student as at
risk for not passing the criterion measure.
King LG, Wohl JS, Manning AM, Hackner SG, Raffe M, Maislin G. Evaluation of the survival
prediction index as a
model of
risk stratification for clinical research in dogs admitted to intensive care units at four locations.
But the potentially severe impacts of a quickly warming world up the ante; therefore, though the
model predictions have significant error bars, a
risk management perspective demands that significant mitigations steps be taken immediately.
Emission scenarios and
model predictions may overstate the
risk, but they are equally likely to underestimate it.There is some evidence that this warming has already begun.
(Kahan et al, 2012, Figure 2) The results quite clearly show that the
prediction of the SCT
model is falsified and that the perceived
risk of climate change is not correlated with science literacy and numeracy.
Are all of the alarmist warmistas in a world - at -
risk tizzy over projections of catastrophe by computer
models, or are they engaged in making
predictions of impending doom, based on
models and all manner of other misinterpreted evidence and made up nonsense?
Projections of these changes of
risk using
models in which changes in the background climate are incorporated, and applied using
models that do a fair job at the short time scale (like high resolution weather
prediction, or hydrological discharge, or...) is thus a viable procedure, and does yield added value.
Climate Science for Serving Society: Research,
Modeling and
Prediction Priorities fosters a more effective dialogue between the climate information and knowledge developers — the research community — and decision makers who must respond to difficult adaptation, mitigation and
risk management issues.
Furthermore, if ONE Global Climate
Model was verified — if it produced useful
predictions (that's in advance and all...: — RRB --RRB- I'd be impressed and more likely to consider it a useful tools in unravelling our climate, assessing
risk benefits, and in making policy decisions.
Didier Sornette's presentation at the AGU entitled «Dragon - Kings, black swans, and
prediction» raises these issues, which need to be considered in the context of
risk assessment and economic
modeling.
Those worried about the
risks of climate change try to use the
models to get best possible
predictions, while those who oppose for ideological reasons any action tell that you should not give any value to those results.
I'm usually the type of person that doesn't take the
risks of CO2 too seriously as far as
modelled predictions go.
Yet, faith in these
model valuations led to a
prediction that Freddie Mac stock was «cheap» when a meltdown of the financial system, largely due to the incorrect valuations and
risk estimates by computer
models, was less than 180 days away.
adopting
models that have not been validated or even hide or underestimate uncertainty in their
predictions results in increased
risks
This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or
modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice
predictions to assess the
risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.
(d) In decision making, adopting
models that have not been validated or even hide or underestimate uncertainty in their
predictions, results in increased
risks.
As destructive as the fire was, it means that the group could collect real - world data to test the validity of
predictions from their computer -
model synthesis and then adjust it to be more useful to city and county planners responsible for mitigating the
risk of post-fire flows.
Next - generation
models for estimating extinction
risks should incorporate these factors in order to increase biological realism and therefore the accuracy of future
predictions.»
Sheltered archipelagos are at
risk from ocean level rise, per long term climate
model predictions.
The EPOS
prediction model improves ability to predict transition to first episode psychosis in individuals at high
risk
In line with the transactional
model's
prediction, a three - way interaction between these factors was found for internalizing and total problem behaviors, suggesting that children, who are more emotionally reactive, experience little maternal responsiveness, are more vulnerable to experience distress, and have learned to interpret mother's ambiguous behavior as unsupportive, are most at
risk to display internalizing and total problem behaviors.
These results are somewhat consistent with
predictions that could be derived from the Wallander et al. (1989)
Risk and Resistance
Model.
Clinical
risk in infancy marginally contributed to the
prediction model.