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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is decision analysis? And why should I care? -- How to start framing a DA problem : how can we work together? -- The objectives hierarchy : what do we want? -- Decisions and alternatives : what can we do? -- Influence diagrams : what do we know? -- Uncertainty assessment : the boundary between known and unknown -- Building a deterministic model : time to run the numbers -- Tornado diagrams : figuring out what is important -- Cumulative probability : looking at the range of outcomes -- Value of information : how much is it worth to know? -- Multiattribute decision analysis : there's more to life than money -- Other topics : more things to think about.