Making Hard Decisions with Decision Tools Suite Update 2004 Edition

Clemen, Robert T.; Reilly, Terence

ISBN 10: 0534421997 / ISBN 13: 9780534421991

Published by Duxbury Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Hard Decisions with Decision Tools Suite Update 2004 Edition
• Publisher: Duxbury Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534421997
• ISBN 13: 9780534421991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

MAKING HARD DECISIONS WITH DECISIONTOOLS« is a special version of Bob Clemen's best-selling text, MAKING HARD DECISIONS. This straight-forward book teaches the fundamental ideas of decision analysis, without an overly technical explanation of the mathematics used in management science. This new version incorporates and implements the powerful DecisionTools« by Palisade Corporation, the world's leading toolkit for risk and decision analysis. At the end of each chapter, topics are illustrated with step-by-step instructions for DecisionTools«. This new version makes the text more useful and relevant to students to business and engineering.

About the Authors

Robert T. Clemen is an Associate Professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He has been an active contributor to the field of decision analysis since earning his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1984 and is an authority in the use of expert information in risk analysis. Aside from his research interests, Bob has a strong focus on making decision analysis understandable to all students at all levels, ranging from creating teaching materials for high school students to teaching in executive education programs.

Terence Reilly is an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Babson College. Since graduating from the University of Oregon, he has spearheaded curriculum changes in the graduate management science classes at Babson College. He has developed extensive distance-learning based materials and has been awarded a grant to implement cooperative learning techniques in the classroom. His research interests include decision analysis, sensitivity analysis, copulas (multivariate distributions), and financial risk analysis. He regularly teaches in executive education programs and has consulted with many corporations, large and small.