Background
Edwards, Ward Dennis was born on April 5, 1927 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Corwin D. and Janet W. (Ferriss) Edwards.
(As budgets tighten and costs increase, it is becoming eve...)
As budgets tighten and costs increase, it is becoming even more necessary that workable social programmes are shown to be worthy of support. This book presents one approach to evaluation -- multiattribute utility technology -- which stresses that evaluations should be comparative, and that all the different constituencies served by a programme and its different goals have to be kept in mind.
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(Decision analysis is a technology designed to help indivi...)
Decision analysis is a technology designed to help individuals and organizations make wise inferences and decisions. It synthesises ideas from economics, statistics, psychology, operations research, and other disciplines. A great deal of behavioural research is relevant to decision analysis; behavioural scientists have both suggested easy and natural ways to describe and quantify problems and shown the kind of errors to which unaided intuitive judgements can lead. This long-awaited book offers the4first integrative presentation of the principles of decision analysis in a behavioural context. The authors break new ground on a variety of technical topics (sensitivity analysis, the value-utility distinction, multistage inference, attitudes toward risk), and attempt to make intuitive sense out of what have been treated in the literature as endemic biases and other errors of human judgement. Those interested in artificial intelligence will find it the easiest presentation of hierarchical Bayesian inference available.
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Psychology and industrial engineering educator
Edwards, Ward Dennis was born on April 5, 1927 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Corwin D. and Janet W. (Ferriss) Edwards.
Bachelor of Arts, Swarthmore College, 1947; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1952.
Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, 1951-1954; with, Pers. and Training Research Center, United States Air Force, Denver, 1954-1956; with, Pers. and Training Research Center, United States Air Force, San Antonio, 1956-1958; research psychologist, University of Michigan, 1958-1963; professor psychology, University of Michigan, 1963-1973; head Engineering Psychology Laboratory, University of Michigan, 1963-1973; associate director, Highway Safety Research Institute, 1970-1973; professor psychology and industrial engineering, University of Southern California, 1973-1995; professor emeritus, University of Southern California, since 1995; director Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California, 1973-1993; president, Wise Decisions, Inc., since 1995. Visiting professor department psychiatry University of California at Los Angeles, since 1997. Consultant in field.
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Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1946. Fellow American Psychological Association, Decision Sciences Institute. Member Western Psychological Association, Psychonomic Society, Society Medical Decision Making, Operations Research Society of America (Frank P. Ramsey medal 1988), Decision Analysis Society (president 1994-1996), Institute Management Sciences (president College Managerial Problem Solving 1987-1988).
Son of Corwin D. and Janet W. (Ferriss) E. M. Sandra Fraser, October 31, 1998. Children: Tara, Page.