May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
13h 54m
English
book
Handbook of Decision Analysis, 2nd Edition
by Gregory S. Parnell, Terry A. Bresnick, Eric R. Johnson, Steven N. Tani, Eric Specking
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Preface
Our Decision Analysis Handbook 2nd Edition is written for the decision professional. Decision analysts work in many industries and government agencies; many work in oil and gas firms, pharmaceutical firms, and military/intelligence agencies. The target audience is the decision analysis practitioner who wants to increase the breadth and depth of his or her technical (concepts and mathematics) and soft skills (personal and interpersonal) required for success in our field. We assume the reader has a technical (engineering, science, mathematics, or operations research) or a business degree; a course in probability and statistics (Appendix A provide a probability review); and, perhaps, some introduction to single or multiple objective decision analysis in a college course or a professional short course. The book is not designed to introduce new decision analysis mathematics but rather to make the most common mathematics and best practices available to the practitioner.
The handbook is designed as a text for an undergraduate or graduate course in decision analysis, as a supplemental reading for professional decision analysis training courses, or as a reference for beginning and experienced practitioners. The 2nd edition now has a New Product Development NPV case study and a Data Center location case study including screen shots of Excel and Excel Addin Software solutions. The book should be useful to both domestic and international practitioners.
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