Decision making on the sole basis of statistical likelihood

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-163

  Giang, Phan H ^a   Shenoy, Prakash P ^b  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity attitude; Decision theory; Likelihood; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

AMBIGUITY ATTITUDE; AXIOMATIC SYSTEMS; LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 18944374520     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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