Wald's decision theory

Wald's decision theory

Wald's decision theory was explicated in his last book, "Statistical decision functions" [cite book
first=Abraham
last=Wald
authorlink=Abraham Wald
title=Statistical Decision Functions
year=1950
pages=ix+179
publisher=John Wiley and Sons, New York; Chapman and Hall, London
]

ee also

* Leonid Hurwicz

Notes

External links

* cite journal
author=G. A. Barnard
title=Review of "Statistical Decision Functions"
journal=Biometrika
volume=40
issue=3/4
date=December, 1953
pages=475–477
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-3444%28195312%2940%3A3%2F4%3C475%3ASDF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
doi=10.2307/2333373


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Decision theory — in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics is concerned with identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues relevant in a given decision, its rationality, and the resulting optimal decision. It is closely related to …   Wikipedia

  • Info-gap decision theory — is a non probabilistic decision theory that seeks to optimize robustness to failure – or opportuneness for windfall – under severe uncertainty,[1][2] in particular applying sensitivity analysis of the stability radius type[3] to perturbations in… …   Wikipedia

  • Regret (decision theory) — Regret (often also called opportunity loss) is defined as the difference between the actual payoff and the payoff that would have been obtained if a different course of action had been chosen. This is also called difference regret. Furthermore,… …   Wikipedia

  • Abraham Wald — Infobox Scientist name = Abraham Wald box width = image width = caption = A young Wald birth date = birthdate|1902|10|31 birth place = Cluj Napoca, Hungary death date = death date and age|1950|12|13|1902|10|31 death place = Travancore, India… …   Wikipedia

  • Abraham Wald — (* 31. Oktober 1902 in Kolozsvár (Klausenburg), im damaligen Ungarn; † 13. Dezember 1950 in Travancore, Indien) war ein deutschsprachiger, rumänisch US amerikanischer Mathematiker aus Siebenbürgen. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Statistiker… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Abraham Wald — Naissance 10 mars 1902 Cluj Napoca (Autriche Hongrie) Décès 12 janvier 1950 (à 47 ans) …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Teoría de la decisión — La teoría de la decisión es una área interdisciplinaria de estudio, relacionada con casi todos los participantes en ramas de la ciencia, ingeniería principalmente la psicología del consumidor (basados en perspectivas cognitivo conductuales).… …   Wikipedia Español

  • probability theory — Math., Statistics. the theory of analyzing and making statements concerning the probability of the occurrence of uncertain events. Cf. probability (def. 4). [1830 40] * * * Branch of mathematics that deals with analysis of random events.… …   Universalium

  • List of statistics topics — Please add any Wikipedia articles related to statistics that are not already on this list.The Related changes link in the margin of this page (below search) leads to a list of the most recent changes to the articles listed below. To see the most… …   Wikipedia

  • Mathematical statistics — is the study of statistics from a mathematical standpoint, using probability theory as well as other branches of mathematics such as linear algebra and analysis. The term mathematical statistics is closely related to the term statistical theory… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”