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L. Robin Keller ()
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L. Robin Keller: Operations and Decision Technologies, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

Decision Analysis, 2007, vol. 4, issue 3, 111-113

Abstract: This issue begins with a multi-attribute utility model by Ralph L. Keeney and Dinah A. Vernik for a woman's decision to have a child when facing the biological clock. Then Barry R. Cobb presents a method for analysis of influence diagrams which contain continuous decision variables and non-Gaussian probability distributions. Next is an article by Johan René van Dorp, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, José García Pérez, and Rafael Herrerías Pleguezuelo, who introduce a probability elicitation procedure for the generalized trapezoidal distribution with a uniform central stage. This issue ends with an essay by Michael H. Rothkopf on why decision analysis, rather than game theory, is the right tool for auctions.

Keywords: decision analysis; applications; medical; multiattribute utility theory; objectives; structuring of; timing of decisions; influence diagram; approximations; value of information; probability; elicitation; generalized trapezoidal distribution; games-group decisions; bidding-auctions; editorial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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