Foundations of Decision Analysis, Global Edition

Part 1 Defining a Good Decision
Chapter 1: Introduction to Quality Decision Making
Chapter 2: Experiencing a Decision

Part 2 Clear Thinking and Characterization
Chapter 3: Clarifying Values
Chapter 4: Precise Decision Language
Chapter 5: Possibilities
Chapter 6: Handling Uncertainty
Chapter 7: Relevance

Part 3 Making any Decision
Chapter 8: Rules of Actional Thought
Chapter 9: The Party Problem
Chapter 10: Using a Value Measure

Part 4 Building on the Rules
Chapter 11: Risk Attitude
Chapter 12: Sensitivity Analysis
Chapter 13: Basic Information Gathering
Chapter 14: Decision Diagrams

Part 5 Characterizing What you Know
Chapter 15: Encoding a Probability Distribution on a Measure
Chapter 16: From Phenomenon to Assessment

Part 6 Framing a Decision
Chapter 17: Framing a Decision

Part 7 Advanced Information Gathering
Chapter 18: Valuing Information from Multiple Sources
Chapter 19: Options
Chapter 20: Detectors with Multiple Indications
Chapter 21: Decisions with Influences

Part 8 Characterizing What You Want
Chapter 22: The Logarithmic u-Curve
Chapter 23: The Linear Risk Tolerance u-Curve
Chapter 24: Approximate Expressions for the Certain
Chapter 25: Deterministic and Probabilistic Dominance
Chapter 26: Decisions with Multiple Attributes (1)-Ordering
Chapter 27: Decisions with Multiple Attributes (2)-Value Functions
Chapter 28: Decisions with Multiple Attributes (3)-Preference Equivalent
Prospects with Preference and Value Functions
for Investment Cash Flows: Time Preference
Probabilities Over Value

Part 9 Some Practical Extensions
Chapter 29: Betting on Disparate Belief
Chapter 30: Learning from Experimentation
Chapter 31: Auctions and Bidding
Chapter 32: Evaluating, Scaling, and Sharing Uncertain Deals
Chapter 33: Making Risky Decisions
Chapter 34: Decisions with a High Probability of Death

Part 10 Computing Decision Problems
Chapter 35: Discretizing Continuous Probability Distributions
Chapter 36: Solving Decision Problems by Simulation

Part 11 Professional Decisions
Chapter 37: The Decision Analysis Cycle
Chapter 38: Topics in Organizational Decision Making
Chapter 39: Coordinating the Decision Making of Large

Part 12 Ethical Considerations
Chapter 40: Decisions and Ethics Groups