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Decision making strategies: the influence of task complexity, decision importance, decision maker impulsivity, and decision maker gender
The effects of decision task complexity, decision importance, and decision maker impulsivity on decision making behavior were studied in this thesis. Measures involving time and acquisition of information were devised as well as specialized measures of decision strategy complexity. Thirty-six …
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An information theoretic model of the decision maker
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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Willingness to pay for industrial recruitment: A look at local decision-maker activity versus citizen preference
… to recruit local businesses is a rational decision, i.e., supported by the general public. Contingent valuation methods estimate discount rates of local economic developers from Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia using a mail survey while West Virginia citizens were surveyed by …
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Cognitive Complexity of a Foreign Policy Decision-Maker Under Conditions of Rising Threat: Joseph Grew and u.s.-japan Relations, 1938-1941
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606992.pdf: 9479682 bytes, checksum: 7d3c3146cdb75801b988616a642885b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Effects of risk aversion on value of information in two-action decision problems
… analyzes the value of information in two-action decision problems with different settings and provides upper and lower bounds on the value of perfect information. The research shows that if two decision makers accept the lottery without the information, then the more risk averse decision maker …
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Spending decision responsibilities of husbands and wives
… between who makes major and everyday spending decisions and the variables: average age of couple, length of marriage, and the wife's contribution to the income. Previous studies have provided divergent opinions as to who makes family spending decisions. A questionnaire was developed especially …
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ESSAYS ON DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Chapter 1 studies a decision maker who approaches a decision problem under uncertainty by formulating a set of plausible probabilistic models of the environment, while being aware that these models are only stylized and incomplete approximations. The decision maker faces two layers of uncertainty. …
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Trustworthy Machine Learning: From Algorithmic Transparency to Decision Support
Developing machine learning models worthy of decision-maker trust is crucial to using models in practice. Algorithmic transparency tools, such as explainability and uncertainty estimates, demonstrate the trustworthiness of a model to a decision-maker. In this thesis, we first explore how …
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Increasing the efficiency of multiple-use inventory procedures
… being inventoried are necessary in making decisions for multiple-use management, simple correlation, multiple linear regression, and factor analysis techniques were employed. Data from the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia were analyzed but no strong association between variables …
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On informational nudging and control of payoff-based learning
… nudging. It focuses on a situation where a decision maker faces a set of alternatives. Each alternative brings a certain stochastic reward/payoff to the decision maker. The decision maker/user repeatedly chooses from the set of alternatives so as to maximize the reward she obtains. The user …
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Measuring technical efficiency in a fuzzy environment
… and output data are not known precisely, the decision maker may choose between three alternatives. The first alternative assumes the sets are generated by a stochastic process. This alternative introduces much subjectivity in the analysis because it requires the decision maker to assume that …
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Three essays on fair division and decision making under uncertainty
… are based on two working papers of mine in decision making under uncertainty. In the second chapter, I study the wealth effect under uncertainty --- how the wealth level impacts a decision maker's degree of uncertainty aversion. I axiomatize a class of preferences displaying decreasing …
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Ideation and Evaluation in Environmental Planning
… of people. The final plan is selected by the decision-maker(s), but the objectives behind the selection are sometimes poorly defined. Since judgements can be affected by an individual's reaction to his surroundings, it is argued that the role of the analyst is to improve the information …
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A Probabilistic Decision Support System for a Performance-Based Design of Infrastructures
… the society. With respect to the nature of the decision problem, two main types of uncertainties may exist: 1) the aleatory uncertainty associated with the nature of the built environment (i.e., the economic, social, and environmental impacts of infrastructures must be described as …
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Dealing with uncertainty : a comparison of robust optimization and partially observable Markov decision processes
… it. This thesis is intended to be used by a decision maker to determine how best to formulate a problem. Robust optimization and partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are two methods of dealing with uncertainty in real life problems. Robust optimization is used primarily in …
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Decisions under uncertainty by state fish and wildlife agencies
Decision makers within state fish and wildlife agencies face a multitude of decision problems. These decision makers are faced with many decision problems that are of sufficient magnitude to warrant the careful weighing of alternatives and consequences. Until recently, the few analytical methods …
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The funnies are a serious business: how local newspaper editors make decisions concerning diverse and controversial comic strips
… is determined by personal characteristics of the decision maker; and 2) media content is determined by forces extrinsic to the decision maker. It was found that in the majority of cases the personal characteristics of the newspaper editor were more important in determining which diverse and …
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Making Decisions: A three‐year ethnographic study of child health student nurses
This theses examine the maturation of decision-making in a cohort of child health students. At strategic stages during their three-year nurse education programme, students gave consent to be formally interviewed about the way they make decisions and observed undertaking simulated practice. This …
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A Community Wide Study Of The Hospice Referral Process
… of this research study was to understand the decision making process when seeking hospice care. The objectives were to identify the decision maker for the patient when seeking hospice care, why they were seeking hospice care, who initiated the referral, if the decision maker was aware they can …
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