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WP040002

Assigning subjective probabilities to event trees: Partition dependence and bias toward the ignorance prior, Craig R. Fox and Robert T. Clemen   July 2004 

WP040001

A Generative Bayesian Model for Aggregating Probabilities of Categorical Events, Joseph M. Kahn   July 2004 


WP030026

The Underlying Event Model for Approximating Probabilistic Dependence Among Binary Events, Donald L. Keefer  May 2004 

WP030025

Maximum Entropy Utility, Ali Abbas February 2004 (revised)

WP030024

Attribute Dominance Utility, Ali Abbas and Ronald A. Howard  October 2003 (revised)

WP030023

Utility Transversality: A Value-Based Approach, James E. Matheson and Ali AbbasOctober 2003 (revised)

WP030022

Utility-Probability Duality,  Ali Abbas and James E. Matheson October 2003 (revised)

WP030021

Group Decisions with Multiple Criteria, Manel Baucells and Rakesh K. Sarin February 2003 

WP030020

Stochastic Dominance and Decision Weights: Theory and Experiments, Manel Baucells and  Franz H. Heukamp 

WP030019

A New Perspective on Multiple Internal Rates of Return, Gordon B. Hazen June 2002

WP030018

Multiattribute Structure for QALYs, Gordon B. Hazen January 2003

WP030017

Javelin Diagrams: A Graphical Tool for Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis, James C. Felli and  Gordon B. Hazen  December 2002 

WP030016

Including Technical and Security Risks in the Development of Information Systems: A Programmatic Risk Management Model, Robin Dillon-Merrill January 2003 

WP030015

Toward a Consensus on Decision Aiding Language and Concepts, Rex Brown January 2003 

WP030014

Environmental Regulation: Developments in Setting Requirements and Verifying Compliance, Rex Brown

WP030013

Logic and Motivation in Risk Reserach: A Nuclear Waste Test Case, Rex Brown January 2003

WP030012

How “Decison Aid” Can Mislead Deciders Due to Conflicts of Interest, Rex Brown January 2003

WP030011

Decision Analysis and Rational Judgment: Structuring Knowledge, Values And Choice (preface to book), Rex Brown 

WP030010

An Examination of Risk and Ambiguity Aversion in Decisions Made by Dyads, L. Robin Keller, Rakesh K. Sarin, and Jayavel Sounderpandian  February 2002

WP030009

The Shape of Incomplete Preferences, Robert F. Nau  January 2003

WP030008

Uncertainty Aversion With Second-Order Utilities and Probabilities, Robert F. Nau  December 2002

WP030007

On the Geometry of Nash Equilibria and Correlated Equilibria, Robert F. Nau, Sabrina Gomez Canovas and Pierre Hansen  December 2002

WP030006

A Generalization Of Pratt-Arrow Measure To Non-Expected-Utility Preferences And Inseparable Probability And Utility, Robert F. Nau  September 2002

WP030005

Debiasing Expert Overconfidence: A Bayesian Calibration Model, Robert T. Clemen and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr.  June 2002 

WP030004

Multiple Experts vs. Multiple Methods: Combining Correlation Assessments, Robert L. Winkler and Robert T. Clemen November 2002 

WP030003

Optimal Allocation of Resources for Defense of Simple Series and Parallel Systems from Determined Adversaries, Vicki M. Bier and Vinod Abhichandani January 2003

WP030002

Enabling E-transactions with Multi-attribute Preference Models, John Butler, James Dyer, and Jianmin Jia  January 2003 

WP030001

An Empirical Investigation of the Assumptions of Risk-Value Models ,  John Butler, James Dyer, and Jianmin Jia  July 2002 


WP020002

Summary of Decision Analysis Applications in the Operations Research Literature, 1990-2001, Donald L. Keefer, Craig W. Kirkwood and James L. Corner November 2002 

WP020001

Using a Bayesian Approach to Quantify Scale Compatibility Bias, Richard M. Anderson and Benjamin F. Hobbs, 2001 


WP000008

Managing an Incremental Commitment: An Analytic Challenge, Rex Brown 2000

WP000007

Predicting the Decision-aiding Value of Decision Research, Rex Brown January, 18, 2000

WP000006

Numerical and Verbal Decision Analysis Compared in Practice, Oleg Larichev, Rex Brown, Nick Flanders, Elena Andreyeva  March 1998 

WP000005

Managing Research to Evaluate if a Risk is Acceptable: Applied to Nuclear Waste Siting, Rex Brown February 2000

WP000004

 Should Environmental Regulations Require Specific Action, Acceptable Risk, or Cost-effectiveness?  Rex Brown

WP000003

Fitting Decision Aids to an Instituional Context, Rex BrownFebruary 20, 1998 

WP000002

Using Soft Data to Make "Probabilisitc Risk Assessments" Realistic, Rex Brown  April 1999 

WP000001

How Misused Decision Aids Mislead Policy Makers, Rex Brown June 9, 1999


WP990008

Risk Tolerances for Quasi Syndicates and Publicly Held Firms, Peter Anselmo and James S. Dyer June, 1999

WP990007

Short-Term Variations and Long-Term Dynamics in Commodity Prices, Eduardo Schwartz and James E. Smith April 22, 1999

WP990006

Risk Sharing, Fiduciary Duty, and Corporate Risk Attitudes, James E. Smith  March 7, 1999 

WP990005

Separating Risk and Return in the CAPM: A General Utility-based Model, Christian S. Pedersen May 1999

WP990004

On the Characterisation of Investor Preferences by Changes in Wealth, Christian S. Pedersen and Steve E. Satchell  April 23, 1999 

WP990002

Utility Functions Whose Parameters Depend on Initial Wealth, Christian S. Pedersen and Steve E. Satchell 1999 

WP990001

Risk, Utility and Switching Between Gambles, Christian S. Pedersen and Steve E. Satchell  Decemeber 1997 


WP980020

Market Efficiency, Bounded Rationality, and Regulation of Supplemental Business Reporting Disclosures, J. Richard Dietrich, Steven J. Kachelmeier, Don N. Kleinmuntz, and Thomas J. LinsmeierJuly 1998 

WP980019

"Do Sensitivity Analyses Really Capture Problem Sensitivity? An Empirical Analysis Based on Information Value, James C. Felli and Gordon B. Hazen March 1998

WP980018

Expected-Utility Preference Reversals in Information Acquisition, Gordon B. Hazen and Jayavel Sounderpandian May 1998

WP980017

Preference Summaries for Stochastic Tree Rollback, Gordon B. Hazen and Jayavel Sounderpandian June 1998

WP980016

Preference Factoring for Stochastic Trees, Gordon B. Hazen  May 1998

WP980015

Factored Stochastic Tree Modeling forArthritic Joint Replacement Decisions" by Gordon B. Hazen, James M. Pellisier, and Rowland W. Chang June 1998

WP980014

PRIME - Preference Ratios in Multiattribute Evaluation, Ahti A. Salo and Raimo P. Hämäläinen December 1997

WP980013

How to Select Fair Improving Directions in a Negotiation Model over Continuous Issues, Harri Ehtamo, Markku Verkama, and Raimo P. HamalainenJune 1997 

WP980012

Generating Pareto Solutions in Two-Party Negotiations by Adjusting Artificial Constraints, Harri Ehtamo, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Pirja Heiskanen, Jeffrey Teich, Markku Verkama and Stanley Zionts November 1997 

WP980011

"Decentralized method for computing Pareto solutions in multi-party negotiations, Pirja Heiskanen March 1998 

WP980010

Indexes for Fixed and Flexible Environmental Target Setting – A Decision Analytical Perspective", Pauli Miettinen and Raimo P. HämäläinenFebruary 1998

WP980009

Behavioral and Procedural Consequences of Structural Variation in Value Trees, Mari Pöyhönen, Hans C. J. Vrolijk, and Raimo P. Hämäläinen November 1997 

WP980008

On the Convergence of Multiattribute Weighting Methods, Mari Pöyhönen and Raimo P. Hämäläinen April 1997 

WP980007

There is Hope in Attribute Weighting", Mari Pöyhönen and Raimo P. Hämäläinen March 1998 

WP980006

An Experiment on the Numerical Modelling of Verbal Ratio Statements, Mari A. Pöyhönen, Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Ahti A. Salo 1997 

WP980005

Notes on the Weighting Biases in Value Trees, Mari Pöyhönen and Raimo P. Hämäläinen 1998 

WP980004

How to Benefit from Decision Analysis in Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)", by Pauli Miettinen and Raimo P. Hämäläinen1997 

WP980003

Consequential Rationality, Procedural Rationality, and Optimal Nash Equilibrium, Marc LeMenestrel  November 1997

WP980002

The Smart Organisation ,David Matheson and Jim Matheson December 1997

WP980001

The Underlying Event Model: A Simple Model for Approximating Probabilistic Dependence Among Binary Events, Donald L. Keefer  August 1997


WP970013

An Experimental Investigation of Forward-Looking Non-Financial Performance Disclosures, J. Richard Dietrich, Steven J. Kachelmeier, Don N. Kleinmuntz, and Thomas J. LinsmeierOctober 1997

WP970012

Correlations and Copulas for Decision and Risk Analysis, Robert T. Clemen and Terence Reilly   March 1997

WP970011

Dependent Decision Analysis, Robert T. Clemen and Terence ReillyNovember 1996

WP970010

Does Decision Analysis Work: A Research Agenda, Robert T. Clemen April 1996

WP970009

Combining Probability Distributions from Experts in Risk Analysis, Robert T. Clemen and Robert L. Winkler   October 27, 1997

WP970008

Simple Probabilistic Evaluation of Portfolio Strategies, William B. Poland   October 4, 1997

WP970007

Relative Risk Value Models, Jianmin Jia andJames Dyer   May 1996

WP970006

Risk-value theory, Jianmin Jia and James Dyer     May 1997

WP970005

Measures of perceived risk, Jianmin Jia, James Dyer and John ButlerOctober 1997

WP970004

Generalized disappointment models, Jianmin Jia, James Dyer and John ButlerSeptmeber 1997

WP970003

Attribute weighting methods and decision quality in the presence of response error: A simulation study, Jianmin Jia, Gregory W. Fisher, and James Dyer  April 1997

WP970002

A simulation technique for the sensitivity analysis of multi-criteria decision models, John Butler, Jianmin Jia, James DyerSeptember 1996

WP970001

A Multiattribute Utility Analysis of Alternatives for the Disposition of Surplus Weapons-grade Plutonium, by James Dyer, Thomas Edmunds, John Butler and Jianmin Jia    May 23, 1997

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