‘decision theory’ tag
- See Also
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Gwern
- “Statistical Notes”, Gwern 2014
- “A/B Testing Long-Form Readability on Gwern.net”, Gwern 2012
- “Dog Cloning For Special Forces: Breed All You Can Breed”, Gwern 2018
- “Evolution As Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”, Gwern 2018
- “Self-Blinded Mineral Water Taste Test”, Gwern 2017
- “Local Optima & Greedy Choices”, Gwern 2021
- “Banner Ads Considered Harmful”, Gwern 2017
- “Embryo Selection For Intelligence”, Gwern 2016
- “Redshift Sleep Experiment”, Gwern 2012
- “Solving Pascal’s Mugging With Dynamic Programming”, Gwern 2019
- “How Should We Critique Research?”, Gwern 2019
- “Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, Gwern 2012
- “Are Sunk Costs Fallacies?”, Gwern 2012
- “The Explore-Exploit Dilemma in Media Consumption”, Gwern 2016
- “Embryo Editing for Intelligence”, Gwern 2016
- “Frank P. Ramsey Bibliography”, Gwern 2019
- “History of Iterated Embryo Selection”, Gwern 2019
- “Life Extension Cost-Benefits”, Gwern 2015
- “When Should I Check The Mail?”, Gwern 2015
- “Internet WiFi Improvement”, Gwern 2016
- “AI Risk Demos”, Gwern 2016
- “Caffeine Wakeup Experiment”, Gwern 2013
- “Bitter Melon for Blood Glucose”, Gwern 2015
- “Ethics of Lithotomy”, Gwern 2014
- “Console Insurance Is A Ripoff”, Gwern 2009
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Links
- “Centaur: a Foundation Model of Human Cognition”, Binz et al 2024
- “Towards a Law of Iterated Expectations for Heuristic Estimators”, Christiano et al 2024
- “An Intuitive Explanation of Black-Scholes: I Explain the Black-Scholes Formula Using Only Basic Probability Theory and Calculus, With a Focus on the Big Picture and Intuition over Technical Details”, Gundersen 2024
- “Song Pong: Synchronizing Pong to Music With Constrained Optimization”, Tao 2024
- “An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming”, Blumer et al 2024
- “A Cellular Basis for Mapping Behavioral Structure”, El-Gaby et al 2023
- “A/B Interactions: A Call to Relax”, Research 2023
- “Using Temperature to Analyze the Neural Basis of a Time-Based Decision”, Monteiro et al 2023
- “Combining Human Expertise With Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology”, Agarwal et al 2023
- “You And Your Research”, Hamming 2023
- “Reinforcement Learning in Newcomb-Like Environments”, Bell et al 2023
- “Conditional Causal Decision Theory Reduces to Evidential Decision Theory”, Mohajeri 2023
- “The Nematode Worm C. Elegans Chooses between Bacterial Foods As If Maximizing Economic Utility”, Katzen et al 2023
- “Can GPT-3 Produce New Ideas? Partially Automating Robin Hanson and Others § If You Never Miss a Plane…”, Sempere 2023
- “How Honey Bees Make Fast and Accurate Decisions”, MaBouDi et al 2023
- “Simulated Automated Facial Recognition Systems As Decision-Aids in Forensic Face Matching Tasks”, Carragher & Hancock 2022
- “Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart’s Law”
- “Peltzman Revisited: Quantifying 21st-Century Opportunity Costs of FDA Regulation”, Mulligan 2022
- “Problem 14 Dynamic Programming Solutions”, Gwern et al 2022
- “Modeling Bounded Rationality in Multi-Agent Simulations Using Rationally Inattentive Reinforcement Learning”, Anonymous 2022
- “Learning With Differentiable Algorithms”, Petersen 2022
- “Revisiting the Temporal Pattern of Regret in Action Versus Inaction: Replication of Gilovich & Medvec 1994 With Extensions Examining Responsibility”, Yeung & Feldman 2022
- “This Is Air: The ‘Non-Health’ Effects of Air Pollution”, Aguilar-Gomez et al 2022
- “The Forecast Trap”, Boettiger 2022
- “Efficiently Irrational: Deciphering the Riddle of Human Choice”, Glimcher 2022
- “A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety”, Adams-Phipps et al 2022
- “Which Findings Should Be Published?”, Frankel & Kasy 2022
- “The InterModel Vigorish (IMV): A Flexible and Portable Approach for Quantifying Predictive Accuracy With Binary Outcomes”, Domingue et al 2022
- “False Discovery in A/B Testing”, Berman & Bulte 2021
- “Noise Increases Anchoring Effects”, Lee & Morewedge 2021
- “A Rational Reinterpretation of Dual-Process Theories”, Milli et al 2021
- “Ν-SDDP: Neural Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming”, Dai et al 2021
- “Prior Knowledge Elicitation: The Past, Present, and Future”, Mikkola et al 2021
- “Strategically Overconfident (to a Fault): How Self-Promotion Motivates Advisor Confidence”, Zant 2021
- “A Confirmation Bias in Perceptual Decision-Making due to Hierarchical Approximate Inference”, Lange et al 2021
- “Enhanced Rationality in Autism Spectrum Disorder”, Rozenkrantz et al 2021
- “TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability: Generalizable Results From 288 Brands”, Shapiro et al 2021
- “Steps of Reasoning in Children and Adolescents”, Brocas & Carrillo 2021
- “Learning to Hesitate”, Descamps et al 2021
- “Alignment Problems With Current Forecasting Platforms”, Sempere & Lawsen 2021
- “Agent Incentives: A Causal Perspective”, Everitt et al 2021
- “Solving Mixed Integer Programs Using Neural Networks”, Nair et al 2020
- “The Causal Foundations of Applied Probability and Statistics”, Greenland 2020
- “Adversarial Vulnerabilities of Human Decision-Making”, Dezfouli et al 2020
- “Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes”, Yang et al 2020
- “The Temporal Dynamics of Opportunity Costs: A Normative Account of Cognitive Fatigue and Boredom”, Agrawal et al 2020
- “Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches”, Rosenthal 2020
- “Robust Decision Theory and Econometrics”, Chamberlain 2020
- “Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in Plants”, Ceccarini et al 2020
- “Modeling Imprecision in Perception, Valuation, and Choice”, Woodford 2020
- “A Comparison of Methods for Treatment Assignment With an Application to Playlist Generation”, Fernández-Loría et al 2020
- “The Secret History of Facial Recognition: Sixty Years Ago, a Sharecropper’s Son Invented a Technology to Identify Faces. Then the Record of His Role All but Vanished. Who Was Woody Bledsoe, and Who Was He Working For?”, Raviv 2020
- “How People Decide What They Want to Know”, Sharot 2020
- “The Gambler’s Problem and Beyond”, Wang et al 2019
- “On ‘Statistical Inference Enables Bad Science; Statistical Thinking Enables Good Science’, Tong 2019”, Gelman 2019
- “The Vulnerable World Hypothesis”, Bostrom 2019
- “A/B Testing With Fat Tails”, Azevedo et al 2019
- “A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial”, Camuffo et al 2019
- “Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design”, Kamenica 2019
- “Generalizable and Robust TV Advertising Effects”, Shapiro et al 2019
- “Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design”, Isakov et al 2019
- “Using the Results from Rigorous Multisite Evaluations to Inform Local Policy Decisions”, Orr et al 2019
- “Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape With PyTorch”, Wiener 2019
- “Test Driving ‘Power of Two Random Choices’ Load Balancing”, Tarreau 2019
- “Accounting Theory As a Bayesian Discipline”, Johnstone 2018
- “Test & Roll: Profit-Maximizing A/B Tests”, Feit & Berman 2018
- “Computational Noise in Reward-Guided Learning Drives Behavioral Variability in Volatile Environments”, Findling et al 2018
- “Effects of Non-Normal Performance Distributions on the Accuracy of Utility Analysis”, Aguinis et al 2018
- “ActiveRemediation: The Search for Lead Pipes in Flint, Michigan”, Abernethy et al 2018
- “Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning”, Liu et al 2018
- “Ordered Preference Elicitation Strategies for Supporting Multi-Objective Decision Making”, Zintgraf et al 2018
- “Differentiable Dynamic Programming for Structured Prediction and Attention”, Mensch & Blondel 2018
- “P-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing”, Berman et al 2018
- “How to Train Your Oracle: The Delphi Method and Its Turbulent Youth in Operations Research and the Policy Sciences”, Dayé 2018
- “Better Decision Making in Drug Development Through Adoption of Formal Prior Elicitation”, Dallow et al 2017
- “Willpower Satisficing”, Chappell 2017
- “Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort”, Shenhav et al 2017
- “Pricing the Future in the 17th Century: Calculating Technologies in Competition”, Deringer 2017
- “The Reinhardt Conjecture As an Optimal Control Problem”, Hales 2017
- “The Kelly Coin-Flipping Game: Exact Solutions”, Gwern et al 2017
- “Bamboo Garden Trimming Problem (Perpetual Maintenance of Machines With Different Attendance Urgency Factors)”, Gąsieniec et al 2017
- “Rational Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Observed Betting Patterns on a Biased Coin”, Haghani & Dewey 2017
- “Was Angelina Jolie Right? Optimizing Cancer Prevention Strategies Among BRCA Mutation Carriers”, Nohdurft et al 2017
- “The Risk Elicitation Puzzle”, Pedroni et al 2017
- “Search in Patchy Media: Exploitation-Exploration Tradeoff”
- “The Performance Pay Nobel”, Tabarrok 2016
- “Blood Sugar Level Follows Perceived Time rather than Actual Time in People With Type 2 Diabetes”, Park et al 2016
- “Brainless but Multi-Headed: Decision Making by the Acellular Slime Mould Physarum Polycephalum”, Beekman & Latty 2015
- “Deep DPG (DDPG): Continuous Control With Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Lillicrap et al 2015
- “Reflective Oracles: A Foundation for Classical Game Theory”, Fallenstein et al 2015
- “Costs and Benefits of Iodine Supplementation for Pregnant Women in a Mildly to Moderately Iodine-Deficient Population: a Modeling Analysis”, Monahan et al 2015
- “The Unfavorable Economics of Measuring the Returns to Advertising”, Lewis & Rao 2015
- “When Causation Does Not Imply Correlation: Robust Violations of the Faithfulness Axiom”, Kennaway 2015
- “Objective Bayesian Two Sample Hypothesis Testing for Online Controlled Experiments”, Deng 2015
- “Selectiongain: an R Package for Optimizing Multi-Stage Selection”, Mi et al 2015
- “Focusing on the Long-Term: It’s Good for Users and Business”, Hohnhold et al 2015
- “Red Black Card Game and Generalized Catalan Numbers”, Howe 2014
- “Your Life in Weeks”, Why 2014
- “Entanglement Guarantees Emergence of Cooperation in Quantum Prisoner’s Dilemma Games on Networks”, Li & Yong 2014
- “On the Near Impossibility of Measuring the Returns to Advertising”, Lewis & Rao 2013
- “The Wait Calculation: The Broader Consequences of the Minimum Time from Now to Interstellar Destinations and Its Statistical-Significance to the Space Economy”, Kennedy 2013
- “Rerandomization to Improve Covariate Balance in Experiments”, Morgan & Rubin 2012
- “Does Retail Advertising Work? Measuring the Effects of Advertising on Sales Via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo”, Lewis & Reiley 2011
- “Utility of Human-Computer Interactions: Toward a Science of Preference Measurement”, Toomim et al 2011
- “Here, There, and Everywhere: Correlated Online Behaviors Can Lead to Overestimates of the Effects of Advertising”, Lewis et al 2011
- “Travelers’ Types”, Brãnas-Garza et al 2011
- “Improving Vineyard Sampling Efficiency via Dynamic Spatially Explicit Optimization”, Meyers et al 2011
- “The Time Resolution of the St Petersburg Paradox”, Peters 2011
- “On the Heritability of Consumer Decision Making: An Exploratory Approach for Studying Genetic Effects on Judgment and Choice”, Simonson & Sela 2010
- “How to Improve R&D Productivity: the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Grand Challenge”, Paul et al 2010
- “Drug Harms in the UK: a Multicriteria Decision Analysis”, Nutt et al 2010
- “Are Birds Smarter Than Mathematicians? Pigeons (Columba Livia) Perform Optimally on a Version of the Monty Hall Dilemma”, Herbranson & Schroeder 2010
- “Convergence of Expected Utility for Universal AI”, Blanc 2009
- “When to Stop: How to Gamble If You Must—The Mathematics of Optimal Stopping”, Hill 2009
- “Anp060–79 407..506”
- “Adversarial Risk Analysis”, Insua et al 2009
- “Strategic Reliabilism: A Naturalistic Approach to Epistemology”, Bishop & Trout 2008
- “Retrospectives Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of ‘Student’s’ t”, Ziliak 2008
- “Convergence of Expected Utilities With Algorithmic Probability Distributions”, Blanc 2007
- “Logarithmic Regret Algorithms for Online Convex Optimization”, Hazan et al 2007
- “The Guidelines Manual—Chapter 8: Incorporating Health Economics in Guidelines and Assessing Resource Impact”, NICE 2007
- “On the Evolution of Investment Strategies and the Kelly Rule—A Darwinian Approach”, Lensberg & Schenk-Hoppé 2007
- “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics”, Abraham 2007
- “Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games: An Experimental Study”, Costa-Gomes & Crawford 2006
- “Information Systems Project Continuation in Escalation Situations: A Real Options Model”, Tiwana et al 2006
- “Decision by Sampling”, Stewart et al 2006
- “Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress”, Kennedy 2006
- “The Optimizer’s Curse: Skepticism and Postdecision Surprise in Decision Analysis”, Smith & Winkler 2006
- Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics, Drescher 2006
- “The Kelly Criterion in Blackjack Sports Betting, and the Stock Market”, Thorp 2006
- “Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable”, Zeckhauser 2006
- “A Systematic Review on Communicating With Patients about Evidence”, Trevena et al 2005
- “Uncertainty and the Value of Diagnostic Information, With Application to Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer”
- “Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy”, Korb 2004
- “The Problem of Thinking Too Much”, Diaconis & Mazur 2003
- “Policy Mining: Learning Decision Policies from Fixed Sets of Data”, Zadrozny 2003
- “John W. Tukey: His Life and Professional Contributions”, Brillinger 2002
- “DART: Revolutionizing Logistics Planning”, Hedberg 2002
- “Comments on the Origin and Application of Markov Decision Processes”, Howard 2002
- “William Sealy Gosset”, Fienberg & Lazar 2001
- “Bayesian Value-Of-Information Analysis: an Application to a Policy Model of Alzheimer’s Disease”, Caxton 2001
- “The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results”, Mitzenmacher et al 2001
- “The Contributions of the Economics of Information to 20th Century Economics”, Stiglitz 2000
- “Should We Take Measurements at an Intermediate Design Point?”, Gelman 2000
- “Rational Choice Theory”, Scott 2000
- “Averaging Expert Predictions”, Kivinen & Warmuth 1999
- “Comparing Classifiers When the Misallocation Costs Are Uncertain”, Adams & Hand 1999
- “Adding Risks: Samuelson's Fallacy of Large Numbers Revisited”, Ross 1999
- “A Representation Theorem for Causal Decision Theory”, Joyce 1999
- “A Conversation With I. Richard Savage (with the Assistance of Bruce Spencer)”, Sampson 1999
- “Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle”, Akaike 1998
- “‘Improving Ratings’: Audit in the British University System”, Strathern 1997
- “The Cold War, RAND, and the Generation of Knowledge, 1946–1962”, Hounshell 1997
- “The ‘Awful Idea of Accountability’: Inscribing People into the Measurement of Objects”, Hoskin 1996
- “Comments on Tengs Et Al ‘Comparative Study of the Cost-Effectiveness of Life-Saving Interventions’”
- “Seeing The Forest From The Trees: When Predicting The Behavior Or Status Of Groups, Correlate Means”, Lubinski & Humphreys 1996b
- “Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Cost-Effectiveness”
- “Noise and Learning in Semiconductor Manufacturing”, Bohn 1995
- “Processing Linguistic Probabilities: General Principles and Empirical Evidence”, Budescu & Wallsten 1995
- “_Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory_”
- “Computer Based Horse Race Handicapping and Wagering Systems: A Report”, Hausch et al 1994
- “The Temporal Pattern to the Experience of Regret”, Gilovich & Medvec 1994
- “Bayesian Updating in Hierarchic Markov Processes Applied to the Animal Replacement Problem”, Kristensen 1993
- “Universal Portfolios”, Cover 1991
- “Learning from Coarse Information: Biased Contests and Career Profiles”, Meyer 1991
- F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers, Ramsey & Mellor 1990
- “‘Student’: A Statistical Biography of William Sealy Gosset”, Pearson et al 1990
- “Weight or the Value of Knowledge”, Ramsey 1990
- “The Total Evidence Theorem for Probability Kinematics”, Graves 1989
- “Nonlinear Preference and Utility Theory”, Fishburn 1988
- “A Shortest Augmenting Path Algorithm for Dense and Sparse Linear Assignment Problems”
- “Measuring the Vague Meanings of Probability Terms”, Wallsten et al 1986
- “Noise”, Black 1986
- “Can People Behave ‘Randomly’?: The Role of Feedback”, Neuringer 1986
- “Searching for Positive Returns at the Track: A Multinomial Logit Model for Handicapping Horse Races”
- “An Examination of Two Alternative Techniques to Estimate the Standard Deviation of Job Performance in Dollars”, Reilly & Smither 1985
- “Game Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud”, Aumann & Maschler 1985
- “Re-Evaluation of Decision Alternatives Dependent upon the Reversibility of a Decision and the Passage of Time”
- “Influence Diagrams”, Howard & Matheson 1984
- “The Citation Bias: Fad and Fashion in the Judgment and Decision Literature”, Christensen-Szalanski & Beach 1984
- “Readings on the Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis: Volume 1: General Collection”, Howard & Matheson 1983
- “Readings on the Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis: Volume 2: Professional Collection”, Howard & Matheson 1983
- “Belief in God: A Game-Theoretic Paradox”, Brams 1982
- “The Variance of Discounted Markov Decision Processes”
- “What Good Are Warfare Models?”, Anger 1981
- “Multi-Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory”, Weerahandi & Zidek 1981
- “Reversible and Irreversible Decisions: Preference for Consonant Information As a Function of Attractiveness of Decision Alternatives”, Frey 1981
- “The Statistical Research Group, 1942–1945”, Wallis 1980
- “Prisoners' Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem”, Lewis 1979
- “Impact of Valid Selection Procedures on Work-Force Productivity”, Schmidt et al 1979
- “Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific Model Building”, Box 1979
- Tools for Thought, Waddington 1977
- “Science and Statistics”, Box 1976
- Boundaries of Analysis: An Inquiry into the Tocks Island Dam Controversy, Feiveson et al 1976
- When Values Conflict: Essays on Environmental Analysis, Discourse, and Decision, Tribe et al 1976
- “Portfolio Choice and the Kelly Criterion”, Thorp 1975
- “Cross-Modality Matching of Money Against Other Continua”, Galanter & Pliner 1974
- “The General Impossibility of Normative Accounting Standards”, Demski 1973
- “An Evaluation of Consumer Protection Legislation: The 1962 Drug Amendments”, Peltzman 1973
- “The Theory of Social Choice”, Fishburn 1973
- “What Makes for a Beautiful Problem in Science?”, Samuelson 1970
- “The Practicality Gap”, Howard 1968
- “General Proof That Diversification Pays”, Samuelson 1967
- “Optimal Dairy Cow Replacement Policies”, Giaever 1966
- “Systems Analysis Problems of Limited War”, Weiss 1966
- “Measuring Utility by a Single-Response Sequential Method”, Becker et al 1964
- “Sequential Medical Trials”
- “A Model for Selecting One of Two Medical Treatments”, Colton 1963
- “Probability, Statistical Decision Theory, and Accounting”, Bierman 1962
- “Studies of War, Nuclear and Conventional”
- Applied Statistical Decision Theory, Raiffa & Schlaifer 1961
- “Gradient Theory of Optimal Flight Paths”, Kelley 1960
- “Letter to the Editor—A Classroom Example of Linear Programming (Lesson Number 2)”, Jewell 1960
- “Rational Decision-Making In Portfolio Management”, Latané 1959b
- “Criteria for Choice Among Risky Ventures”, Latané 1959
- “Testing Statistical Hypotheses (First Edition)”, Lehmann 1959
- Probability and Statistics for Business Decisions: An Introduction to Managerial Economics Under Uncertainty, Schlaifer 1959
- “An Optimum Character Recognition System Using Decision Functions”, Chow 1957
- “Evolutionary Operation: A Method for Increasing Industrial Productivity”
- “Unsolved Problems of Experimental Statistics”, Tukey 1954
- “Non-Cooperative Games”, Nash 1951
- “The Economic Life of Industrial Equipment”, Preinreich 1940
- “The Relationship Of Validity Coefficients To The Practical Effectiveness Of Tests In Selection: Discussion And Tables”
- “"Student" As Statistician”, Pearson 1939
- “Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress”, Fisher 1938
- “On the Theory of Apportionment”
- “The Lanarkshire Milk Experiment”, Elderton 1933
- “Pasteurised and Raw Milk”, Fisher & Bartlett 1931
- “The Lanarkshire Milk Experiment [Student]”, Gosset 1931
- “On Testing Varieties of Cereals”, Gosset 1923
- “The Application Of The ‘Law Of Error’ To The Work Of The Brewery”, Gosset 1904
- “Brian Christian on Computer Science Algorithms That Tackle Fundamental and Universal Problems”
- “When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica”
- Bayesian Optimization Book
- “The Final Cut [Ford-Fulkerson’s Max-Flow Min-Cut As Planning Paradigm]”
- “In Praise of Sparsity and Convexity”, Tibshirani 2024 (page 518)
- “Measurement, Benchmarking, and Data Analysis Are Underrated”
- “Buy More Copies”, Dynomight 2024
- “Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe”, Abraham 2024
- “Jury Theorems”
- “Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory”
- “Scaling up Linear Programming With PDLP”
- “Why a Pro/con List Is 75% As Good As Your Fancy Machine Learning Algorithm”
- “The Science of Production”, Potter 2024
- “The Battleships Game That Countered German U-Boat Attacks During WW2”
- “New Winning Strategies for the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma”
- “In Strategic Time, Open-Source Games Are Loopy”
- “Research Update: Towards a Law of Iterated Expectations for Heuristic Estimators”
- “Why We Can’t Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They’re Unbiased)”
- “Fat Tails Discourage Compromise”
- “Optimizing Crop Planting With Mixed Integer Linear Programming in Stardew Valley”
- “Leaky Delegation: You Are Not a Commodity”
- “Probable Points and Credible Intervals, Part 2: Decision Theory”
- Wikipedia
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Statistical Notes”, Gwern 2014
“A/B Testing Long-Form Readability on Gwern.net”, Gwern 2012
“Dog Cloning For Special Forces: Breed All You Can Breed”, Gwern 2018
“Evolution As Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”, Gwern 2018
“Self-Blinded Mineral Water Taste Test”, Gwern 2017
“Local Optima & Greedy Choices”, Gwern 2021
“Embryo Selection For Intelligence”, Gwern 2016
“Redshift Sleep Experiment”, Gwern 2012
“Solving Pascal’s Mugging With Dynamic Programming”, Gwern 2019
“How Should We Critique Research?”, Gwern 2019
“Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, Gwern 2012
“Are Sunk Costs Fallacies?”, Gwern 2012
“The Explore-Exploit Dilemma in Media Consumption”, Gwern 2016
“Embryo Editing for Intelligence”, Gwern 2016
“Frank P. Ramsey Bibliography”, Gwern 2019
“History of Iterated Embryo Selection”, Gwern 2019
“Life Extension Cost-Benefits”, Gwern 2015
“When Should I Check The Mail?”, Gwern 2015
“Internet WiFi Improvement”, Gwern 2016
“AI Risk Demos”, Gwern 2016
“Caffeine Wakeup Experiment”, Gwern 2013
“Bitter Melon for Blood Glucose”, Gwern 2015
“Ethics of Lithotomy”, Gwern 2014
“Console Insurance Is A Ripoff”, Gwern 2009
Links
“Centaur: a Foundation Model of Human Cognition”, Binz et al 2024
“Towards a Law of Iterated Expectations for Heuristic Estimators”, Christiano et al 2024
Towards a Law of Iterated Expectations for Heuristic Estimators
“An Intuitive Explanation of Black-Scholes: I Explain the Black-Scholes Formula Using Only Basic Probability Theory and Calculus, With a Focus on the Big Picture and Intuition over Technical Details”, Gundersen 2024
“Song Pong: Synchronizing Pong to Music With Constrained Optimization”, Tao 2024
Song Pong: Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization
“An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming”, Blumer et al 2024
“A Cellular Basis for Mapping Behavioral Structure”, El-Gaby et al 2023
“A/B Interactions: A Call to Relax”, Research 2023
“Using Temperature to Analyze the Neural Basis of a Time-Based Decision”, Monteiro et al 2023
Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision
“Combining Human Expertise With Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology”, Agarwal et al 2023
Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology
“You And Your Research”, Hamming 2023
“Reinforcement Learning in Newcomb-Like Environments”, Bell et al 2023
“Conditional Causal Decision Theory Reduces to Evidential Decision Theory”, Mohajeri 2023
Conditional causal decision theory reduces to evidential decision theory:
“The Nematode Worm C. Elegans Chooses between Bacterial Foods As If Maximizing Economic Utility”, Katzen et al 2023
The nematode worm C. elegans chooses between bacterial foods as if maximizing economic utility
“Can GPT-3 Produce New Ideas? Partially Automating Robin Hanson and Others § If You Never Miss a Plane…”, Sempere 2023
“How Honey Bees Make Fast and Accurate Decisions”, MaBouDi et al 2023
“Simulated Automated Facial Recognition Systems As Decision-Aids in Forensic Face Matching Tasks”, Carragher & Hancock 2022
Simulated automated facial recognition systems as decision-aids in forensic face matching tasks
“Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart’s Law”
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law:
“Peltzman Revisited: Quantifying 21st-Century Opportunity Costs of FDA Regulation”, Mulligan 2022
Peltzman Revisited: Quantifying 21st-Century Opportunity Costs of FDA Regulation
“Problem 14 Dynamic Programming Solutions”, Gwern et al 2022
“Modeling Bounded Rationality in Multi-Agent Simulations Using Rationally Inattentive Reinforcement Learning”, Anonymous 2022
“Learning With Differentiable Algorithms”, Petersen 2022
“Revisiting the Temporal Pattern of Regret in Action Versus Inaction: Replication of Gilovich & Medvec 1994 With Extensions Examining Responsibility”, Yeung & Feldman 2022
“This Is Air: The ‘Non-Health’ Effects of Air Pollution”, Aguilar-Gomez et al 2022
“The Forecast Trap”, Boettiger 2022
“Efficiently Irrational: Deciphering the Riddle of Human Choice”, Glimcher 2022
Efficiently irrational: deciphering the riddle of human choice
“A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety”, Adams-Phipps et al 2022
A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety
“Which Findings Should Be Published?”, Frankel & Kasy 2022
“The InterModel Vigorish (IMV): A Flexible and Portable Approach for Quantifying Predictive Accuracy With Binary Outcomes”, Domingue et al 2022
“False Discovery in A/B Testing”, Berman & Bulte 2021
“Noise Increases Anchoring Effects”, Lee & Morewedge 2021
“A Rational Reinterpretation of Dual-Process Theories”, Milli et al 2021
“Ν-SDDP: Neural Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming”, Dai et al 2021
“Prior Knowledge Elicitation: The Past, Present, and Future”, Mikkola et al 2021
“Strategically Overconfident (to a Fault): How Self-Promotion Motivates Advisor Confidence”, Zant 2021
Strategically overconfident (to a fault): How self-promotion motivates advisor confidence
“A Confirmation Bias in Perceptual Decision-Making due to Hierarchical Approximate Inference”, Lange et al 2021
A confirmation bias in perceptual decision-making due to hierarchical approximate inference
“Enhanced Rationality in Autism Spectrum Disorder”, Rozenkrantz et al 2021
“TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability: Generalizable Results From 288 Brands”, Shapiro et al 2021
TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability: Generalizable Results From 288 Brands
“Steps of Reasoning in Children and Adolescents”, Brocas & Carrillo 2021
“Learning to Hesitate”, Descamps et al 2021
“Alignment Problems With Current Forecasting Platforms”, Sempere & Lawsen 2021
“Agent Incentives: A Causal Perspective”, Everitt et al 2021
“Solving Mixed Integer Programs Using Neural Networks”, Nair et al 2020
“The Causal Foundations of Applied Probability and Statistics”, Greenland 2020
The causal foundations of applied probability and statistics
“Adversarial Vulnerabilities of Human Decision-Making”, Dezfouli et al 2020
“Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes”, Yang et al 2020
“The Temporal Dynamics of Opportunity Costs: A Normative Account of Cognitive Fatigue and Boredom”, Agrawal et al 2020
The Temporal Dynamics of Opportunity Costs: A Normative Account of Cognitive Fatigue and Boredom
“Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches”, Rosenthal 2020
“Robust Decision Theory and Econometrics”, Chamberlain 2020
“Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in Plants”, Ceccarini et al 2020
“Modeling Imprecision in Perception, Valuation, and Choice”, Woodford 2020
“A Comparison of Methods for Treatment Assignment With an Application to Playlist Generation”, Fernández-Loría et al 2020
A Comparison of Methods for Treatment Assignment with an Application to Playlist Generation
“The Secret History of Facial Recognition: Sixty Years Ago, a Sharecropper’s Son Invented a Technology to Identify Faces. Then the Record of His Role All but Vanished. Who Was Woody Bledsoe, and Who Was He Working For?”, Raviv 2020
“The Gambler’s Problem and Beyond”, Wang et al 2019
“On ‘Statistical Inference Enables Bad Science; Statistical Thinking Enables Good Science’, Tong 2019”, Gelman 2019
On ‘Statistical Inference Enables Bad Science; Statistical Thinking Enables Good Science’, Tong 2019
“The Vulnerable World Hypothesis”, Bostrom 2019
“A/B Testing With Fat Tails”, Azevedo et al 2019
“A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial”, Camuffo et al 2019
A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
“Bayesian Persuasion and Information Design”, Kamenica 2019
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Using the Results from Rigorous Multisite Evaluations to Inform Local Policy Decisions:
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Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch
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Computational noise in reward-guided learning drives behavioral variability in volatile environments
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Effects of Non-normal Performance Distributions on the Accuracy of Utility Analysis
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Ordered Preference Elicitation Strategies for Supporting Multi-Objective Decision Making
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Differentiable Dynamic Programming for Structured Prediction and Attention
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Better Decision Making in Drug Development Through Adoption of Formal Prior Elicitation
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Pricing the Future in the 17th Century: Calculating Technologies in Competition
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Rational Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Observed Betting Patterns on a Biased Coin
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Deep DPG (DDPG): Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning
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“Costs and Benefits of Iodine Supplementation for Pregnant Women in a Mildly to Moderately Iodine-Deficient Population: a Modeling Analysis”, Monahan et al 2015
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The Unfavorable Economics of Measuring the Returns to Advertising
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When causation does not imply correlation: robust violations of the Faithfulness axiom
“Objective Bayesian Two Sample Hypothesis Testing for Online Controlled Experiments”, Deng 2015
Objective Bayesian Two Sample Hypothesis Testing for Online Controlled Experiments
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Selectiongain: an R package for optimizing multi-stage selection:
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“Your Life in Weeks”, Why 2014
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Entanglement guarantees emergence of cooperation in quantum prisoner’s dilemma games on networks
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On the Near Impossibility of Measuring the Returns to Advertising
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Utility of Human-Computer Interactions: Toward a Science of Preference Measurement
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Improving vineyard sampling efficiency via dynamic spatially explicit optimization:
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“On the Heritability of Consumer Decision Making: An Exploratory Approach for Studying Genetic Effects on Judgment and Choice”, Simonson & Sela 2010
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How to improve R&D productivity: the pharmaceutical industry’s grand challenge
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Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis:
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When to Stop: How to gamble if you must—the mathematics of optimal stopping:
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Strategic Reliabilism: A Naturalistic Approach to Epistemology
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Retrospectives Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of ‘Student’s’ t
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Convergence of Expected Utilities with Algorithmic Probability Distributions
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Logarithmic regret algorithms for online convex optimization
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On the Evolution of Investment Strategies and the Kelly Rule—A Darwinian Approach
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Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games: An Experimental Study
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Information Systems Project Continuation in Escalation Situations: A Real Options Model
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Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress
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The Optimizer’s Curse: Skepticism and Postdecision Surprise in Decision Analysis
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Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics
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The Kelly Criterion in Blackjack Sports Betting, and the Stock Market
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Policy Mining: Learning Decision Policies from Fixed Sets of Data
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Comments on the Origin and Application of Markov Decision Processes
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The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results
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Should we take measurements at an intermediate design point?
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Comparing classifiers when the misallocation costs are uncertain
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Adding Risks: Samuelson's Fallacy of Large Numbers Revisited:
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A conversation with I. Richard Savage (with the assistance of Bruce Spencer)
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Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle
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Processing Linguistic Probabilities: General Principles and Empirical Evidence
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Computer Based Horse Race Handicapping and Wagering Systems: A Report:
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Bayesian updating in hierarchic Markov processes applied to the animal replacement problem
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Learning from Coarse Information: Biased Contests and Career Profiles
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Weight or the Value of Knowledge:
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The Citation Bias: Fad and Fashion in the Judgment and Decision Literature
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Readings on the Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis: Volume 1: General Collection:
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Readings on the Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis: Volume 2: Professional Collection:
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The Variance of Discounted Markov Decision Processes:
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What Good Are Warfare Models?:
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The Statistical Research Group, 1942–1945:
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Prisoners' Dilemma is a Newcomb Problem:
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Impact of valid selection procedures on work-force productivity
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Tools for Thought, Waddington 1977
“Science and Statistics”, Box 1976
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Boundaries of Analysis: An Inquiry into the Tocks Island Dam Controversy
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When Values Conflict: Essays on Environmental Analysis, Discourse, and Decision
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“Cross-Modality Matching of Money Against Other Continua”, Galanter & Pliner 1974
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The General Impossibility of Normative Accounting Standards:
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An Evaluation of Consumer Protection Legislation: The 1962 Drug Amendments
“The Theory of Social Choice”, Fishburn 1973
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Systems Analysis Problems of Limited War:
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The Application Of The ‘Law Of Error’ To The Work Of The Brewery
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“The Battleships Game That Countered German U-Boat Attacks During WW2”
The Battleships Game That Countered German U-boat Attacks During WW2
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