GE 550
Spring 2012 All Classes
Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.
Continuation of GE 450. Fundamental requirements of a decision-making system; comparison of different decision-making methods; "paradoxes" in decision making; foundations and history of probability as a degree of belief; Bayesian vs. classical statistics; entropy of a random variable; experimentation and optimal stopping; invariance formulations in utility and probability; one-switch preferences; graph-based methods to incorporate dependence in multiattribute utility functions.
Prerequisite: GE 450.
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50787
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Lecture-Discussion
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A
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2:00PM
-4:20PM
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T
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Siebel Center for Comp Sci
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Abbas, A
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