net benefit

collocation in English

meaningsofnetandbenefit

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net
adjective[before or after noun]
uk
/net/
us
/net/
left when there is nothing else to be ...
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benefit
noun
uk
/ˈben.ɪ.fɪt/
us
/ˈben.ə.fɪt/
a helpful or good effect, or something intended ...
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(Definition ofnetandbenefitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnet benefit

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A favorablenetbenefitcan be achieved through either greater efficacy or a lower cost.
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However, since the assessment is likely to matter only in marginal cases, thenetbenefitof the improved decision may well be small.
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The effect of a 30 % reduction in legume grain output prices on thenetbenefitobtained from legume-maize rotations was dramatic.
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When there is anetbenefit, there is the question of how those benefits are distributed.
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The goal of the optimization model is to maximize the actor'snetbenefitas measured by the currency.
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Thenetbenefitapproach is an alternative approach for presenting the cost-effectiveness of a technology and for characterizing the uncertainty around this value (18).
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The use of thenetbenefitframework could introduce a downward pressure on the price of new therapies.
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This approach provides a large number of simulations of cost, effect, andnetbenefitfor each technology under evaluation (3).
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Two posterior distributions fornetbenefitare employed based on a prior distribution from previous studies (shown) and an uninformative prior.
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This procedure used 5000 repetitions, which meant that for each model 5000 values of the incrementalnetbenefitwere generated.
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If society does not wish to see this type of inequality, the individual expectednetbenefitcan be used to select therapies for fast track.
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Next, we subtracted the total costs from the discounted lifetime earnings for each individual to obtain thenetbenefitfor each individual.
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That is, the balance between the expectednetbenefitand the degree of uncertainty is acceptable to the healthcare decision maker.
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The best point estimate for thenetbenefitis the mean of this distribution, $3,339; the central 95% credible interval ranges from -$116,490 to $123,040.
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Since thenetbenefitstatistics are exactly equivalent, the choice of scale is a matter of preference.
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This approach was chosen in order to show the residual effects of different treatments over time as incrementalnetbenefitover the control.
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Quantitatively, thenetbenefitfrom the changed decision should exceed the cost of the assessment exercise.
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At the time of "conditioning" the system cannot predict the mate's response and so cannot evaluate thenetbenefitof learning a particular behaviour.
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Therefore, thenetbenefitto families with children was offset to that extent.
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