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JENSEN’S INEQUALITY IN MEDICINE CHAP 21
I’ve found very few medical papers making use of nonlinearity by applying Jensen’s inequality to medical problems, in spite of the ubiquity of nonlinear responses in biology. I am generous, I actually only found a single one , thanks to Eric Briys, and a single one that used it properly, so the response “we know that” when nonlinearity is explained to medical researchers is rather lame. The philosopher’s stone explained that the volatility of, say, a dose matters, often more than the average. If you are antifragile to a given substance, then you are better off to have it randomly distributed, rather than provided steadily. Remarkably it works in an identical way as with options, innovations, anything convex. Now let us apply it …

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