Morton, Alec and Phillips, Lawrence D. (2009) Fifty years of probabilistic decision analysis: a view from the UK. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60. S33-S40. ISSN 0160-5682
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In 1959, LJ Savage attended a statistics seminar held in his honour at the University of London, confronting those present with a radically different approach to reasoning about uncertainty. Britain was well placed to respond to Savage, as very similar ideas had been laid out in Britain a full generation earlier, and in the next few decades, British and British-based practitioners and researchers championed a collection of techniques for thinking quantitatively about uncertainty (which we call 'Probabilistic Decision Analysis'), developing practice, and contributing to theoretic knowledge about the underlying psychology and mathematics. This effectively turned a collection of purely theoretical ideas into a practical modelling technology. In the first decade of the 21st century, some 50 years on, these ideas have made a noticeable influence on practice and thinking in various domains, but numerous challenges still remain.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.orsoc.org.uk/publication/jors.htm |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HA Statistics |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Aug 2009 12:43 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2024 03:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25027 |
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