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gambles  

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  • The standard gamble is a method for eliciting a person's preferences for different outcomes where an outcome may be a physical object, a monetary gain, a medical condition, or some other state of affairs. It uses simulated choices among various outcomes of known preference to quantify the value (or utility) of the target outcome. [Source: Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making; Gambles]

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