March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
12h 33m
English
book
Handbook of Decision Analysis
by Gregory S. Parnell PhD, Terry Bresnick MBA, Steven N. Tani PhD, Eric R. Johnson PhD
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Acronyms
| AFT | Alternative-Focused Thinking |
| BLUF | Bottom Line Up Front |
| boe | Barrel of oil-equivalent |
| BRAC | Base realignment and closure |
| BTU | British thermal units |
| BU | Business Unit |
| capex | Capital expenses |
| CBM | Coalbed Methane |
| CE | Certain Equivalent |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
| COTS | Commercial off-the-shelf software |
| DA | Decision Analysis |
| DAAG | Decision Analysis Affinity Group |
| DEF | Decision Education Foundation |
| DFT | Decision Focused Transformation |
| DM | Decision Maker |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| Dx | Diagnostic |
| E&P | Exploration and Production |
| EGFR | Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor |
| EnP | Exploration and Production |
| ENPV | Expected Net Present Value |
| EOR | Enhanced Oil Recovery |
| EV | Expected Value |
| F&D | Finding and Development |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FISH | Fluorescent in situ hybridization |
| Gbps | Gigabytes per second |
| GRASP | Goals and Outcomes, Room and Logistics, Agenda and Time Available, Support Team, Tools, and Techniques, Participants and Observers |
| HER2 | Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 |
| IC | Intelligence Community |
| ID | Influence Diagram |
| IDCF | International Decision Conferencing Forum |
| IHC | Immunohistochemistry |
| INFORMS | Institute for Operations Research and Management Science |
| IT | Information Technology |
| KRAS | v-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog |
| LAV | Light armored vehicle |
| LCC | Life Cycle Cost |
| LDT | Laboratory-Developed Test |
| mmBtu | Million British thermal units |
| MODA | Multiple Objective Decision Analysis |
| MPG | Miles per gallon |
| MW | Megawatts |
| NGT | Nominal Group Technique |
| NPV | Net Present Value |
| ODQ | Organizational ... |
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