Using Bayes' rule to update an event's probabilities based on the outcomes of partially similar events

Decision Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-127

  Bordley, Robert F ^a,b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional probabilities; Decision analysis; Human memory; Pseudocounts; Similarity; Updating probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958862744     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1110.0204     Document Type: Article

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