Simple methods for evaluating and comparing binary experiments

DOI10.1007/S11238-009-9136-4MaRDI QIDQ993502zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas A. Weber

Publication date 20 September 2010

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/187478

zbMATH Keywords

value of informationdecision making under uncertaintyclassification problemsinformativeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Decision theory (91B06) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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