Communicating analytic results: A tutorial for decision consultants

Decision Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 274-292

  Keisler, Jeffrey M ^a   Noonan, Patrick S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Communication of decision analysis insights; Decision analysis; Decision consulting; Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866663726     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1120.0238     Document Type: Article

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