The emergence of decision analysis

Advances in Decision Analysis: From Foundations to Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 13-31

  Miles, Ralph F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511611308.003     Document Type: Chapter

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