Name
Abstract | ||
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This paper on the UNOS Liver Allocation Model (ULAM) describes the building of a simulation model that supports policy evaluation for a national medical problem. The modeling and simulation techniques used in building ULAM include: fitting donor and patient arrival processes having trend and cyclic rate components using non-homogeneous Poisson processes (NHPPs) having exponential rate functions which may include both a polynomial and some trigonometric components; fitting distributions to data on transition times between states of medical urgency; application of variance reduction techniques using common random-number streams and prior information; organizing data structures for efficient file searching and ranking capabilities; the use of bootstrapping techniques for attribute sampling; the building of submodels employing biostatistical procedures such as Kaplan-Meier and logistic regression; and the characterization of performance measures within a complex political, economic and social environment. ULAM provides a means for producing quantitative information to support the selection of a liver allocation policy. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.5555/1351542.1352011 | Winter Simulation Conference |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
exponential rate function,national medical problem,organ transplantation policy evaluation,medical urgency,liver allocation policy,fitting donor,fitting distribution,cyclic rate component,prior information,policy evaluation,data structure,organ transplantation | Data mining,Data structure,Polynomial,Ranking,Simulation,Modeling and simulation,Computer science,Bootstrapping,Sampling (statistics),Poisson distribution,Variance reduction | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1-4244-1306-0 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
4 | 13 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Alan B. Pritsker | 1 | 157 | 50.51 |
| David L. Martin | 2 | 38 | 8.56 |
| Janet S. Reust | 3 | 24 | 5.95 |
| Mary Ann Wagner | 4 | 24 | 5.95 |
| O. Patrick Daily | 5 | 49 | 9.61 |
| Ann M. Harper | 6 | 44 | 8.27 |
| Erick B. Edwards | 7 | 44 | 8.27 |
| Leah E. Bennett | 8 | 24 | 5.95 |
| James R. Wilson | 9 | 840 | 143.42 |
| Michael E. Kuhl | 10 | 188 | 34.82 |
| John P. Roberts | 11 | 24 | 5.95 |
| Margaret D. Allen | 12 | 24 | 5.95 |
| James F. Burdick | 13 | 24 | 5.95 |