Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis

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Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis

- 15 Aug 1997

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TL;DR: This text involves readers in real-world decisions from personal, federal, corporate and environmental areas and readers should learn how to use the tools of decision analysis including decision tree diagrammes, influence diagrammes and probabilistic models for insight into decision-making situations.

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Mathematical Techniques in Multisensor Data Fusion

David L. Hall

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