See Marc Victor's Litigation Risk Analysis: http://www.litigationrisk.com/m-con-mbv.htm
Mr. Victor has been successfully selling his method to lawyers and other decision makers for at least 15 years. Sincerely, Peter T >From: Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed Mar 29 08:31:26 CST 2006 >To: uai@engr.orst.edu >Subject: [UAI] Who uses Decision Analysis? >After describing decision analysis to my class recently, a student >actually applied it on his job. A question then came up. Where has it >been successfully applied in real life problems? Although it's been >around my whole life (at least since Jimmy Savage's book in 1954), I >actually am aware of few real applications. There are a lot of >publications that discuss problems that look real (e.g. Clemen's >book), but is any of this real? Did Penzoil really analyze the >problem as Clemen describes? Of course sitting in my `ivory tower' I >would not know what goes on in corporate America, etc. So I would be >curious to learn of any real applications of decision analysis, >especially ones that are published. This could be in an expert system >(that people use) or to make a one time decision. >Thanks, >Rich > >Richard E. Neapolitan >Professor and Chair of Computer Science >Northeastern Illinois University >5500 N. St. Louis >Chicago, Illinois 60625 > >_______________________________________________ >uai mailing list >uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU >https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai **** Peter Tillers [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai