The right decision a mathematician's secret formula for making the right choice every time /
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McGraw-Hill,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- You are what you decide
- Creating the menu
- What's in it for me? determining your payoffs
- When the crystal ball is cloudy
- Dumping the losers: the admissibility criterion
- Worst-case scenarios: the minimax criterion
- In the long run: Bayes' criterion
- Taking the plunge: the maximax criterion
- Which club to use
- What you don't know can hurt you
- The balance of powers
- People who need people
- Hurts so good.