"Decision Theory" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A theoretical technique utilizing a group of related constructs to describe or prescribe how individuals or groups of people choose a course of action when faced with several alternatives and a variable amount of knowledge about the determinants of the outcomes of those alternatives.
| Descriptor ID |
D003662
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G17.162
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| Concept/Terms |
Decision Theory- Decision Theory
- Decision Theories
- Theories, Decision
- Theory, Decision
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Decision Theory" by people in Profiles.
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A decision-theoretic phase I-II design for ordinal outcomes in two cycles. Biostatistics. 2016 Apr; 17(2):304-19.
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Disambiguating ambiguous biomedical terms in biomedical narrative text: an unsupervised method. J Biomed Inform. 2001 Aug; 34(4):249-61.
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Investigation of basic imaging properties in digital radiography. 8. Detection of simulated low-contrast objects in digital subtraction angiographic images. Med Phys. 1986 May-Jun; 13(3):304-11.