Everyday decision analysis
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Decision analysis has helped people decide where to dig for oil, how to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in pharmaceutical research and development, and optimal policies for disease screening and diagnosis. But does it work for smaller decisions? Can decision analysis help you decide what to do about a friend who's late to meet you for drinks? Or how to respond to an email from a student requesting help outside of your ordinary office hours? Or whether to request a blindfold before they bring you out in front of the firing squad? I believe that it can. In this dissertation I determine the minimum necessary and sufficient criteria for a decision process to count as decision analysis by subjecting decision analysis to rigorous philosophical scrutiny. I call this essential, simplified process Everyday Decision Analysis, or more succinctly Everyday DA.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Burbank, Noah |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Howard, Ronald A. (Ronald Arthur), 1934- |
| Thesis advisor | Howard, Ronald A. (Ronald Arthur), 1934- |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Robinson, Burke Edward |
| Thesis advisor | Shachter, Ross D |
| Advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Advisor | Robinson, Burke Edward |
| Advisor | Shachter, Ross D |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Noah Burbank. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Noah William Burbank
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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