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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"Decision Theory"”.
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Team decision theory
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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Essays in Decision Theory
… three independent chapters that span topics in decision theory, including ethical decision-making, learning from others, and anticipatory emotions. In Chapter 1, I model decision-making constrained by ethics, duty, law, or other virtues or principles. In addition to a true preference, the …
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Essays in Decision Theory
This dissertation studies decision theories for both individual and interactive choice problems. This thesis proposes three non-standard models that modify assumptions and settings of standard models. Chapter 1 provides an overview of this dissertation. In the second chapter I present a model of …
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Case-Based Decision Theory and Financial Markets
… fallgestützte Entscheidungstheorie (Case-Based Decision Theory) vorgeschlagen von Gilboa and Schmeidler (1995) auf Entscheidungen in Finanzmärkten an. Betrachtet werden sowohl das individuelle Portfoliowahlproblem eines Investors, wie auch Märkte, in denen fallgestützte Investoren interagieren. …
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The dividend initiation decision : theory and evidence
… that endogenizes a firm's dividend initiation decision, and its extreme reluctance to subsequently cut dividends in a sequential equilibrium. After payment of dividends, all excess cash is disgorged via stock repurchases that elicit no price reactions. The theoretical model generates results …
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Validating the predictions of case-based decision theory
Real-life decision-makers typically do not know all possible outcomes arising from alternative courses of action. Instead, when people face a problem, they may rely on the recollection of their past personal experience: the situation, the action taken, and the accompanying consequence. In addition, …
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Application of statistical decision theory to legal decisions
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1964.
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Team decision theory of switched static and dynamic systems
… control in a changing environment, economic theory, power systems, decision making in organizations, resource allocation. The thesis is roughly divided into three parts. The first part of the thesis focuses on the static quadratic team problem, where players observe partial observations of an …
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Decision and Dependence: A Defence of Causal Decision Theory
For several decades, causal decision theory (CDT) has been the orthodox version of philosophical decision theory. However, ever since CDT was first developed there have been those who have disputed the adequacy of this theory. Then, in the last decade and a half, opposition to this theory has …
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A Decision Theory Experiment in the Assessment of Financial Distress
This experiment extends individual decision theory accounting research to a multi person setting. Specifically, the loan review performance of bank committees is examined using empirically derived cases pertaining to default and non default firms.
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An application of behavioral decision theory to recreation site selection
… site which may be relevant to a choice decision. A framework was developed to analyze the multitude of studies dealing with recreation site attributes. Using a microcomputer based data collection instrument in a laboratory situation, the lexicographic semi-order choice model was found to …
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Decision Theory Classification Of High-dimensional Vectors Based On Small Samples
In this paper, we review existing classification techniques and suggest an entirely new procedure for the classification of high-dimensional vectors on the basis of a few training samples. The proposed method is based on the Bayesian paradigm and provides posterior probabilities that a new vector …
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Self-awareness theory and decision theory: a theoretical and empirical integration
<p>The literatures on self-awareness theories and decision theories were reviewed separately and then integrated for the purposes of: (a) exploring possible applications of self-awareness to improve decision making; and (b) for extending research in the area of self-awareness to a decision making …
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Behavioral decision theory and the negotiation process; effects of agenda and frame
… (Expected Value, Expected Utility, and Prospect Theory) by fitting utility functions to negotiation behavior observed in a laboratory setting. In addition to inferring the form of the utility function from observed negotiation behavior, utility functions were measured directly. Results strongly …
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Comparison of two drugs by multiple stage sampling using Bayesian decision theory
… have been performed, one must make the terminal decision of which of the two populations has the higher probability of success. The optimum strategy is to be optimum relative to a given loss function; and a prior distribution, or weighting function, for the probabilities of success for the two …
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Modeling Multi-level Incentives in Health Care: A Multiscale Decision Theory Approach
… predict programs' performance and stakeholders' decision response is an unresolved research challenge. The objective of this study is to establish a novel approach based on multiscale decision theory (MSDT) that can effectively model and efficiently analyze such incentive programs, and the …
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Incentive Mechanism Design for Systems with Many Agents: A Multiscale Decision Theory Approach
… an effective mechanism to align the interests of decision-makers. For example, employers use incentives to motivate their employees to take actions that benefit both the employers and the employees. Incentives also play a role in the interaction between firms, for example in a supply chain …
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An analysis of pre-election violence through decision theory, experimental design and spatial econometrics
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Decision theory process for making a mitigation decision on harmonic resonance in power systems
Decision analysis is a scientific tool that is traditionally applied in business and not to electrical engineering decisions. The reason for this research is to show how to use decision analysis to make a decision on the size of a power factor correction capacitor to be installed in an end-user …
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