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Decision Rules, Attitude Similarity, and Jury Decision-Making
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511812.pdf: 5171638 bytes, checksum: facc45595a0302dc259af55d2e89335c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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RESOURCE USE RATES: ESTIMATION OF TIME INVARIANT DECISION RULES (EROSION)
… has increased, understanding the soil management decision rule used by farmers has become more important. The model developed to analyze the optimal decision rule for soil use rates is essentially a supply response model which assumes rational expectations. It can be characterized as a dynamic …
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Analysis of product development decision rules and effects on product performance
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002.
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An Examination of Decision Rules Within Organizational Units as Responses to Governmental Stimuli
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Decision rules for the automated generation of storage strategies in data management systems
Thesis. 1975. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Dynamic decision-making under uncertainties: algorithms based on linear decision rules and applications in operating models
… efficient and robust algorithms based on Linear Decision Rule (LDR), which expand the applicability of the existing LDR methods. Representative and complex operation models are analyzed and solved by the proposed approaches. The research motivation and scope are provided in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 …
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Evaluation of Current Decision Rules and Healthcare Professional Practices for Detecting Osteoporosis Risk in the Young Adult Population
Osteoporosis is caused by a multitude of factors. An individual’s risk for experiencing a bone fracture as a senior citizen increases without early intervention. Healthcare professionals do not have access to validated survey tools to identify young adults in need of osteoporosis prevention …
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Petechiae in Children (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA
Background<br/>The aim of this prospective cohort study was to report the performance of existing clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for diagnosis of invasive meningococcal disease (MD) in children presenting with fever and non-blanching rash in the UK.<br/><br/>Methods<br/>Data were collected …
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Maximal Versus Non Maximal Muscular Exertions: A Study of Valid Measures Using Isokinetic Dynamometry
… was to develop and validate probability-based decision rules for differentiating between maximal and non-maximal voluntary exertions of the knee and shoulder joint musculature during isokinetic dynamometry-based testing. For development of the decision rules, healthy participants performed a …
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Frugal hypothesis testing and classification
The design and analysis of decision rules using detection theory and statistical learning theory is important because decision making under uncertainty is pervasive. Three perspectives on limiting the complexity of decision rules are considered in this thesis: geometric regularization, …
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Essays on modeling and measurement of consumers' decision strategies
… to modeling and measurement of consumer decision strategies. The focus is on decision strategies that deviate from von Neumann-Morgenstern utility theory. Essays 1 and 2 explore decision rules that consumers use to form their consideration sets. Essay 1 proposes …
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Random Forests Based Rule Learning And Feature Elimination
… algorithm that can simultaneously extract decision rules and select critical features for good interpretation while preserving the prediction performance. We propose an efficient approach, combining rule extraction and feature elimination, based on 1-norm regularized random forests. This …
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A dynamic model of the U.S. cotton market with rational expectations
… model for the U.S. cotton market. The dynamic decision rules are derived from the cotton farmer and miller optimization problems; and the equilibrium movements of prices, production, land allocation, and mill consumption are solved analytically. The dynamic element in the cotton farmer and …
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Validating the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory for Identifying Substance Abuse Among Adolescents in a Residential Treatment Center
… and an assessment interview. Scale scores and decision rules for the SASSI-A were then compared to the classification by clinical assessment. Underlying structure of the SASSI-A was also examined through principal component analysis.</p> <p>Results. Independent t tests for the SASSI-A subscales …
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Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty: Novel Methodologies and Applications
In sequential decision-making under uncertainty, multistage stochastic mixed-integer programming (MSMIP) is a tool for addressing optimization problems with a given probability distribution and the goal of optimizing a performance measure over a planning horizon. If there is no knowledge about the …
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Decision-theoretic techniques for the development and use of side information in frequency-hop radio receivers
… should be erased. In this thesis, Bayesian decision theory is employed to obtain such a method for use in frequency-hop communications with Reed-Solomon coding and errors-and-erasures decoding. One erasure decision rule that is derived minimizes a bound on the probability of not decoding …
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A Knowledge-based approach of satellite image classification for urban wetland detection
… urban wetland detection, which includes a set of decision rules of identifying wetland cover in relation to its elevation, spatial adjacencies, habitat conditions, hydro-geomorphological characteristics, and relevant geostatistics. Using ERDAS Imagine software's knowledge classifier tool, the …
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Mechanisms underlying population dynamics of a migratory songbird in a fragmented forest
… population dynamics appeared to be governed by decision rules used by adult birds when deciding whether to return to their previous year's breeding sites. Adults were more likely to return to areas where they had previously nested successfully. These decision rules may help them avoid sink …
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Identification and Robustness in Central Banking and Supply Chain
… in central banking, and derive robust decision rules for central banking policymaking. When bounded uncertainty is passed through a conditional expectation channel, we find that committing not to use a policy tool is sometimes optimal for the central bank. An asset purchasing model and …
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