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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Value Health. 2015 Jan 14;18(2):278–283. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2014.11.009

Table 1.

Summary of Variables and Notations

L Stockpile of vaccines
|N| Population size
ωi Weight of individual i while computing efficiency
Xi Vector of demographics for individual i
V(Xi) Individual i’s priority, given Xi and fairness characterized by V(·)
α A generic fairness degree in interval [0,1]
D A generic vaccine allocation rule
PD,V(·) Cumulative allocation function given allocation rule D and fairness V(·)
D_α(V) Uniquely determined allocation rule whose fairness degree is α, given V(·)
PαV
Cumulative allocation function of allocation rule D_α(V)