Letter to the Editor---Information Theory and Search Theory as Special Cases of Decision Theory

Donald F. Mela
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Donald F. Mela: Operations Evaluation Group, Washington, D. C.

Operations Research, 1961, vol. 9, issue 6, 907-909

Abstract: It is the purpose of this note to indicate with some simple examples that the connection between the information-theory approach and the search-theory approach is tenuous and that search problems can better be regarded as an application of the more general theory of statistical decision.

Date: 1961
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