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Applied Statistical Decision Theory Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA)

Applied Statistical Decision Theory By Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA)

Applied Statistical Decision Theory by Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA)


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This is an examination of the applications of Bayesian statistical theory to real-life business problems of decision under conditions of uncertainty.

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Applied Statistical Decision Theory by Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA)

In the field of statistical decision theory, Raiffa and Schlaifer have sought to develop new analytic techniques by which the modern theory of utility and subjective probability can actually be applied to the economic analysis of typical sampling problems.
-From the foreword to their classic work Applied Statistical Decision Theory. First published in the 1960s through Harvard University and MIT Press, the book is now offered in a new paperback edition from Wiley

About Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA)

Howard Raiffa was an American academic who was the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Robert Schlaifer is the author of Applied Statistical Decision Theory, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

EXPERIMENTATION AND DECISION: GENERAL THEORY.

The Problem and the Two Basic Modes of Analysis.

Sufficient Statistics and Noninformative Stopping.

Conjugate Prior Distributions.

EXTENSIVE-FORM ANALYSIS WHEN SAMPLING AND TERMINAL UTILITIES ARE ADDITIVE.

Additive Utility, Opportunity Loss, and the Value of Information: Introduction to Part II.

Linear Terminal Analysis.

Selection of the Best of Several Processes.

Problems in Which the Act and State Spaces Coincide.

DISTRIBUTION THEORY.

Univariate Normalized Mass and Density Functions.

Multivariate Normalized Density Functions.

Bernoulli Process.

Poisson Process.

Independent Normal Process.

Independent Multinormal Process.

Normal Regression Process.

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CIN047138349XG
9780471383499
047138349X
Applied Statistical Decision Theory by Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA)
Used - Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2000-06-14
384
N/A
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