Observed and Normative Discount Functions in Addiction and other Diseases

• Main Authors: Salvador Cruz Rambaud (Author), María J. Muñoz Torrecillas (Author), Taiki Takahashi (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media S.A., 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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The aim of this paper is to find a suitable discount function able to describe the progression of a certain addiction or disease under treatment as a discounting process. In effect, a certain indicator related to a disease decays over time in a manner which is mathematically similar to the way in wh...