weak dominance

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weak dominance

In health care management, a strategy that provides a more effective but also a more costly solution to a problem than an alternative.

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The observed shares, in and of themselves, do not provide sufficient statistical evidence of weak dominance as defined above at any standard level of significance.

Dominance thresholds: a cautionary note

By weak dominance, y [in] [[A.sup.*].sub.i] for all i [in] C, and hence y [in] [A.sup.*].

But, since [[delta].sub.j] = 1, this means that j's acceptance set violates weak dominance: [[rho].sub.i] [greater than] 0 for all i [in] N implies u, [less than] [v.sub.j]([[pi].sup.*]), so in equilibrium we must have [x.sub.k] [[ IN]] [[A.sup.*].sub.j].