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Working With Convex Responses: Antifragility From Finance to Oncology
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Jeffrey West
We extend techniques and learnings about the stochastic properties of nonlinear responses from finance to medicine, particularly oncology where it can inform dosing and interventio…
Unmasking the mask studies: why the effectiveness of surgical masks in preventing respiratory infections has been underestimated
Pratyush K. Kollepara, Alexander F. Siegenfeld, Nassim Nicholas Taleb +1
Face masks have been widely used as a protective measure against COVID-19. However, pre-pandemic empirical studies have produced mixed statistical results on the effectiveness of m…
(Anti)Fragility and Convex Responses in Medicine
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This paper applies risk analysis to medical problems, through the properties of nonlinear responses (convex or concave). It shows 1) necessary relations between the nonlinearity of…