The precautionary principle: a new approach to public decision-making?
in Law, Probability and Risk
March 2006; p ublished online August 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Law; Probability and Statistics. 7513 words.
The precautionary principle recommends preventing possible harm to human health and environment. It has gained support in the international community as a higher-order legal principle that...
The game PIG: making decisions based on mathematical thinking
in Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA
March 2000; p ublished online March 2000 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics; Education. 0 words.
A study of the game PIG can be introduced to high school or first year undergraduate students as an interesting case for the study of decision making based on ''mathematical thinking''. When...
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Convergent evolution in law and science: the structure of decision-making under uncertainty
in Law, Probability and Risk
June 2011; p ublished online June 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Law; Probability and Statistics. 0 words.
The formal structure of decision-making under uncertainty used in legal trials bears a noteworthy similarity to the structure of decision-making under uncertainty used in hypothesis testing...
Formalizing Collaborative Decision‐making and Practical Reasoning in Multi‐agent Systems
in Journal of Logic and Computation
February 2002; p ublished online February 2002 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computing; Logic. 0 words.
In this paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision‐making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through to...
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Group decision making and Quality-of-Information in e-Health systems
in Logic Journal of the IGPL
April 2011; p ublished online July 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Logic. 0 words.
Knowledge is central to the modern economy and society. Indeed, the knowledge society has transformed the concept of knowledge and is more and more aware of the need to overcome the lack of...
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Closed-Form Approximations of First-Passage Distributions for a Stochastic Decision-Making Model
in Applied Mathematics Research eXpress
January 2009; p ublished online February 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Applied Mathematics. 5467 words.
In free response choice tasks, decision making is often modeled as a first-passage problem for a stochastic differential equation. In particular, drift-diffusion processes with constant or...
Workshop on using natural language processing applications for enhancing clinical decision making: an executive summary
in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
February 2014; p ublished online August 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Medical Statistics and Methodology; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Biomathematics and Statistics. 2889 words.
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In April 2012, the National Institutes of Health organized a two-day workshop entitled ‘Natural Language Processing: State of the Art, Future...
Use of population health data to refine diagnostic decision-making for pertussis
in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
January 2010; p ublished online January 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Medical Statistics and Methodology; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Biomathematics and Statistics. 4645 words.
Abstract
Objective To improve identification of pertussis cases by developing a decision model that incorporates recent, local, population-level...
Extending the Malmquist index to consider the balance factor of decision making units in a productivity analysis
in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
July 2016; p ublished online April 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics. 5460 words.
This paper extends the Malmquist productivity index by considering an important factor called the ‘balance factor’. Although factors such as efficiency, scale and technology have been...
Decision making and card collecting
in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
April 2005; p ublished online April 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics. 0 words.
Collecting a set of different, yet similar, items is a popular hobby. The “coupon collector's problem” is concerned with the number of items which must be obtained, one at a time, in order...
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Revisiting the p-value: a comparison of statistical evidence in clinical and legal medical decision making
in Law, Probability and Risk
June 2009; p ublished online March 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Law; Probability and Statistics. 0 words.
While the use of p-values in evidence-based medicine (EBM) is consistent and well-defined, the application of statistical information in health law varies greatly. A comparative literature...
Variability in adolescent portal privacy features: how the unique privacy needs of the adolescent patient create a complex decision-making process
in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
August 2018; p ublished online May 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Medical Statistics and Methodology; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Biomathematics and Statistics. 7063 words.
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Medical privacy policies, which are clear-cut for adults and young children, become ambiguous...
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A Randomized Effectiveness Trial of a Clinical Informatics Consult Service: Impact on Evidence-based Decision-making and Knowledge Implementation
in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
March 2008; p ublished online March 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Medical Statistics and Methodology; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Biomathematics and Statistics. 7370 words.
Abstract
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of providing synthesized research evidence to inform patient care practices via an evidence...
Bayesian decision-making in inventory modelling
in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
March 1999; p ublished online March 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics. 0 words.
The objective of this paper is to advocate the use of Bayesian methods in tackling decision problems with limited past data. It is assumed that a Bayesian approach is least likely to be...
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The logic of conflicts between decision making agents
in Journal of Logic and Computation
August 2000; p ublished online August 2000 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computing; Logic. 0 words.
We present a formal model for the analysis of conflicts in sets of autonomous agents restricted in the sense that they can be described in a (first-order) language and by a transaction...
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Decision making in industrial production planning using fuzzy linear programming
in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
January 2004; p ublished online January 2004 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics. 0 words.
Any modern industrial manufacturing unit inevitably faces problems of vagueness in various aspects such as raw material availability, human resource availability, processing capability and...
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Making Decisions Over and Over Again with Perl’s if and while
in Perl for Exploring DNA
August 2007; p ublished online April 2010 .
Chapter. Subjects: Biomathematics and Statistics. 5689 words.
This chapter introduces the useful Perl ‘control structures’ that allow for the checking of unique situations and relieves the necessity of issuing the same statements over and over — Perl...
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Computer-aided decision-making with trust relations and trust domains (cryptographic applications)*
in Journal of Logic and Computation
February 2014; p ublished online May 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Logic; Computing. 0 words.
We propose generic declarative definitions of individual and collective trust relations between interacting agents and agent collections, and trust domains of trust-related agents in...
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Innovative approaches to support patient decision making, improve safety, and enable large-scale clinical research
in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
December 2011; p ublished online December 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Medical Statistics and Methodology; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Biomathematics and Statistics. 884 words.
Can Cognitive Biases during Consumer Health Information Searches Be Reduced to Improve Decision Making?
in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
January 2009; p ublished online January 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Medical Statistics and Methodology; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Biomathematics and Statistics. 8643 words.
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Objective: To test whether the anchoring and order cognitive biases experienced during search by consumers using information retrieval...
