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Decision Theory: A Brief Introduction

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Decision Theory: A Brief Introduction
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Publisher: KTH Stockholm
Number of pages: 94

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This text is a non-technical overview of modern decision theory. It is intended for university students with no previous acquaintance with the subject, and was primarily written for the participants of a course on risk analysis at Uppsala University in 1994.

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