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| | Memorial Resolution for Amos Tversky |
 | | Amos, then a 19 year old lieutenant, but destined to become a world authority on risk assessment and decision making, knew the explosion would occur within a few seconds. | | | Focusing again and again on the gap between actual human intellectual performance and the normative standards that should seemingly govern such performance, Amos produced at least a dozen papers that, even by his own stringent standards, can justifiably be termed classics. | | | Most economic analysis presupposes the rationality of actors' decisions and of the judgments and predictions upon which those decisions are based. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/facultysenate/archive/1997_1998/reports/105949/106013.html
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| | Nick Murray Interactive |
| | My career since then, both as an advisor and now as an advisor to other advisors, has been based on the realization that investment performance (a) can’t be predicted, (b) can’t be controlled, other than through the asset allocation decision stocks/bonds, and (c) doesn’t matter. | | | And, to the extent that you’ve been a consumer of my written and/or spoken work since about 1990, I’ve mostly been passing that permission on to you. | | | He was by all accounts a mensch’s mensch, and would surely have shared the prize had he lived.) |
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http://nickmurrayinteractive.com/articles/sample2004_behaviorism.html
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| | Investor Home - Psychology |
| | LSV Asset Management, Fuller and Thaler Asset Management, David Dreman and Ken Fisher are some money managers that invest based on behavioral finance theories. | | | Source: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, "Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Making Under Risk," Econometrica, 1979. | | | Many researchers (not all) believe that these humans flaws are consistent, predictable, and can be exploited for profit. |
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http://www.investorhome.com/psych.htm
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| | PsycPORT Handhelds |
| | Kahneman and Tversky demonstrated that normative mathematical models of probability and choice don't account for most intuitive human decisions. | | | By identifying these biases, they clarified challenges for education in economics and medical decision-making. | | | A Grawemeyer committee noted, "It is difficult to identify a more influential idea than that of Kahneman and Tversky in the human sciences." |
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http://www.psycport.com/stories/comtex_2002_12_05_pr_0000-5713-ky-nobel-prize-award.xml.html
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| | EconPort - Handbook - Decision-Making Under Uncertainty - Prospect Theory |
| | Kahneman, Daniel, and Tversky, Amos, (1979), "Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk", Econometrica, vol. | | | Prospect theory, developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky is perhaps the most well-known of these alternative theories. | | | The problem was even framed in many different ways, with prizes involving money, vacations, and so on. |
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http://www.econport.org:8080/econport/request?page=man_ru_advanced_prospect
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| | PON Clearinghouse |
| | Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1986), 'Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions' | | | Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1979), 'Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk' | | | Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1995), 'Conflict Resolution: A Cognitive Perspective' |
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http://www.pon.org/catalog/bazerman_vols_toc.php
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| | McAdoo/Nolan-Haley/Peppet-The Interface Between Negotiation Theory and Mediation Practice |
| | 5: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Choices, Values, and Frames, 39 AM. | | | L. 4: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk, 47 Econometrica 263 (1979); Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice, 211 SCIENCE 453 (1981); Russell Korobkin and Chris Guthrie, Psychological Barriers to Litigation Settlement: An Experimental Approach, 93 MICH. | | | Senger and Christopher Honeyman, Cracking the Hard-Boiled Student: Some Ways to Turn Research Findings into Effective Training Exercises, The Conflict Resolution Practitioner, Monograph published by the Georgia Commission on Dispute Resolution and the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, (2001) |
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http://www.law.missouri.edu/aalsadr/Syllabi/Interface_Between_NegTheory_&_MedPractice.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Choices, Values, and Frames: Books: Daniel Kahneman,Amos Tversky |
| | Amazon.com: Choices, Values, and Frames: Books: Daniel Kahneman,Amos Tversky | | | Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky have spent their whole lives developing an alternative to the "rational actor" model of human decision-making, the standard of traditional economic theory and the decision sciences. | | | Their ideas were received rather well from the start, but in recent years, their alternative, which we can fairly call "behavioral economics" has virtually displaced traditional decision theory as an active research area. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521627494?v=glance
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| | 2003 Psychology Award Winner |
| | Kahneman and Tversky demonstrated in experiments that normative mathematical models of probability and choice don’t account for most intuitive human judgments and decisions. | | | Dr. Kahneman and Tversky also advocated application of psychological principles to public policy. | | | Their work has contributed to the determination of the value of public goods in litigation. |
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http://www.grawemeyer.org/psychology/previous/03.html
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| | FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: Amos Tversky, Cognitive Psychologist, at 59 |
| | One part of Tversky's work with particular application to economics and policy making looked at how much importance people place on risks and benefits. | | | Tversky (pronounced TUH-VER-skee) once said he merely examined in a scientific way things about behavior that were already known to "advertisers and used-car salesmen," and much of his work has indeed had an economic slant, shaping the way economists look at decision-making by consumers and business executives. | | | If people were asked to choose between a public health program that might save 600 lives or might lose them all and a program that would be guaranteed to save 400 of the 600 lives, they would choose the second program. |
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http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~kcyoung/course/tversky.html
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| | Amos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Amos is the name of a software for aircraft maintenance (MRO). | | | AMOS (Analysis of MOment Structures) is a structural equation modelling software: http://www.spss.com/amos | | | Amos is the NATO reporting name of the Vympel R-33 air-to-air missile. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos
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| | Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory |
| | Kahneman and Tversky's theory, developed over a thirty year period, is however highly important in economics and especially in financial economics. | | | One very important result of Kahneman and Tversky work is demonstrating that people's attitudes toward risks concerning gains may be quite different from their attitudes toward risks concerning losses. | | | Peter Bernstein reports some interesting results from a Tversky study of people's, in this case 120 Stanford graduates, estimates of the probability of dying from various causes. |
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http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/prospect.htm
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| | Pro Basketball - Feature: 12/18/96 From The Mining Company |
| | Amos Tversky, took the results of that paper to the public a few years later. | | | Tversky and his colleagues tracked every shot the Sixers took and looked at whether any players were more likely to make a shot after they made their previous one. | | | He said that we look for streaks even when they are not there or when what is occurring is nothing more than random variation. |
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http://www.rawbw.com/~deano/articles/aa121896.htm
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| | South(west)paw: kahneman&tversky@chicago.1988 |
| | The first time I met Danny Kahneman and the only time I met Amos Tversky was at a conference in Chicago in the summer of 1988 in honor Hillel Einhorn. | | | I remember that I was no more successful persuading Amos of the validity of my perspective than I’d been with Danny. | | | Most economists pretend that 'people are rational' is as good an approximation of reality as 'f=ma.' The existence of framing effects, loss aversion, the sunk cost effect and the persistence and persuasiveness of Kahneman, Tversky & Thaler has convinced some economists that rational man is a poor model for actual people. |
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http://debfrisch.com/archives/000118.html
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| | ORIGIN RESEARCH |
| | For an axiomatic analysis and a critical discussion of these assumptions, see Beals, Krantz, and Tversky (1968), Krantz and Tversky (1975), and Tversky and Krantz (1970). | | | This paper benefited from fruitful discussions with Y. Cohen, 1. | | | Analyses of these data attempt to explain the observed similarity relations and to capture the underlying structure of the objects under study. |
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http://originresearch.com/documents/tversky1.cfm
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| | Amos Tversky: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal |
| | One of the other common blunders of reasoning that he and Tversky discovered is the tendency to assess the frequency of a given event by how easy it is to think of examples of that event. | | | Tversky died in 1996, and while he did receive a citation from the prize committee, he couldn't receive the prize itself: Nobels are not awarded posthumously. | | | Because the appearance of black after a long run of red would seem to help restore the even balance of colors that the wheel guarantees over time, gamblers become convinced that the wheel is ''due'' to hit black. |
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http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001025.html
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| | Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 81010042 |
| | Belief in the law of small numbers Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman 3. | | | Judgments of and by representativeness Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman Part III. | | | Evidential impact of base rates Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman Part IV. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam029/81010042.html
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| | Chance News 5.07.html |
| | Thaler observes that in 1926, when a ticket to the movies cost 25 cents, the average share on the Big Board was $35. | | | The "New York Times" article provides a good account of the highlights of Tversky's life and research. | | | Lowenstein quotes Tversky as saying that much of his work would have been familiar to advertisers and used-car salesmen but not to economists. |
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/recent_news/chance_news_5.07.html
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| | EconPapers: Amos Tversky and the Ascent of Behavioral Economics |
| | Tversky's contributions are reviewed, assessed using citation analysis, and placed in historical context. | | | Tversky's concepts have broadly influenced the social sciences. | | | Fertile areas for behavioral economics research are identified. |
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http://econpapers.repec.org/article/kapjrisku/v_3A16_3Ay_3A1998_3Ai_3A1_3Ap_3A7-47.htm
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| | Devlin's Angle: Tversky's Legacy Revisited |
| | Imagine you are a member of a jury judging a hit-and-run driving case. | | | The following problem is typical of the scenarios considered by Tversky and Kahneman. | | | To mathematicians, the Stanford-based psychologist is best known for the research he did with his colleague Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s, into the way people judge probabilities and estimate likely outcomes of events. |
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http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_july.html
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| | South(west)paw: kahneman & tversky: part 2 |
| | Although you might argue that it’s a small sample and that the majority of decision researchers are male, this is not the only evidence of male-bias in Kahneman and Tversky and behavioral economics. | | | In his 5.17.04 talk at Northwestern, EVERY researcher Danny referred to was male. | | | I would add a corollary to her statement that in the soft sciences (sorry guys, economics is a soft science), it is even more important to study the world with both eyes open. |
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http://debfrisch.com/archives/2005/09/kahneman_tversk_2.html
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| | Preference, Belief, and Similarity:026270093X:Amos Tversky; Eldar Shafir (Ed.):eCampus.com |
| | Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman. | | | He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. | | | Amos Tversky (1937-1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. |
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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=026270093X
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| | This paper examines these contributions in two major areas: (1) formal modeling of choice behavior, and the measurement of preferences, and (2) experiments demonstrating cognitive illusions that establish the limits of rationality. | | | Tversky and his fellow cognitive psychologists have made major advances over the past 25 years in the understanding of human choice behavior and the limits of the classical rational model. | | | McFadden argues that Tversky's work is having a profound and continuing effect on economic science. |
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http://emlab.berkeley.edu/wp/mcfadden_abs/6.19
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| | Techniques for applying the ideas of conjoint measurement quickly came to be used by market researchers and others, since they were a more objective-sounding way of approaching the market research task than were the techniques of multiattribute utility measurement. | | | Amos is a dominant figure in cognitive psychology and behavioral decision theory. | | | Another research domain in which Amos was a leader was the axiomatic and mathematical foundations of measurement, especially measurement of behavior. |
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| | The Daily Princetonian - Nobel winner Kahneman grabs 200K psych prize |
| | They further showed that normative mathematical models of probability and choice do not account for most intuitive human judgments and decisions, according to the Grawemeyer press release. | | | Kahneman and Tversky demonstrated that certain biases direct human behavior in the face of an uncertain decision, often leading to a simplification of the problem. | | | In addition, Kahneman, who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, is one of the University's highest paid professors, earning $270,480 in 1999-2000, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. |
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http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/12/06/news/6589.shtml?type=printable
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| | You’re Not the Only One Who is Confused About Probability |
| | Among its leaders have been Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (Kahneman and Tversky, 1972; Kahneman and Tversky, 1996; Tversky and Kahneman, 1974). | | | Tversky and Kahneman argue that this impressive battery of results suggests that we are just not very good at handling this kind of information. | | | Danny Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research; his long-term collaborator, Amos Tversky, would no doubt have shared the honor had he not died in 1996 (Kahneman, 2003). |
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http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/dweiss/Psy302/Confusion.htm
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| | George M. Frankfurter, "The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics" |
| | PT was to become the theoretical foundation of what are today called the overreaction and under reaction hypotheses and the contrarian literature, giving academic legitimacy to behavioral finance. | | | Akerlof had met the two psychologists whose research and experiments, in collaboration with various economists, produced many early findings of behavioral economics. | | | One of them, Amos Tversky, died in 1996; the other, Daniel Kahneman, now at Princeton, taught a graduate seminar on psychology and economics with Mr. |
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| | Mixing Memory: Jokes from the Amos Tversky Fan Club |
| | Psychological Review, 90, 293-315 for a review of the various approaches to the Linda problem, and this paper for a shorter look at the research. | | | In my world, which is admittedly a very small one consisting of me and the other hard-core Amos Tversky fans, the reference, as the title of a post about cognitive heuristics, would be easy to recognize. | | | Still, I don't know how many of you are hard-core Amos Tversky fans, or into behavioral economics in general. |
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http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2004/10/jokes-from-amos-tversky-fan-club.html
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| | Amos Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores |
| | Amos Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores | | | Poison Blonde: An Amos Walker Novel (Amos Walker Series) | | | Let us know anything good or bad about this website and help us improve! |
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| | Amos Tversky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With Kahneman, he originated prospect theory to explain irrational human economic choices. | | | Amos Tversky was married to Barbara Tversky, presently a professor in the human development department at Teachers College, Columbia University. | | | Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky
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| | Alibris: Amos Tversky |
| | Selected works by the influential cognitive and mathematical psychologist and decision theorist Amos Tversky. | | | The book brings together the different approaches to... | | | An approach to the understanding of human decision making. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Tversky,Amos
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| | Behavioural Finance |
| | Kahneman, Daniel, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky, eds. | | | Create feedback loops that allow for process analysis and improvement. | | | Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, London: Cambridge University Press, 1982. |
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http://www.finpipe.com/behave.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Choices, Values and Frames: Books |
| | Building on the 1982 volume, Judgement Under Uncertainty, this book brings together seminal papers on prospect theory from economists, decision theorists, and psychologists, including the work of the late Amos Tversky, whose contributions are collected here for the first time. | | | While remaining within a rational choice framework, prospect theory delivers more accurate, empirically verified predictions in key test cases, as well as helping to explain many complex, real-world puzzles. | | | This book presents the definitive exposition of 'prospect theory', a compelling alternative to the classical utility theory of choice. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521627494
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| | Books by Amos Tversky |
| | Edited by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Paul Slovic | | | Edited by David E. Bell, Amos Tversky and Howard Raiffa | | | Edited by Kenneth Arrow, Lee Ross, Amos Tversky and Robert Wilson |
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| | Eldar Shafir |
| | Redelmeier, D., and Shafir, E. Medical decision making in situations that offer multiple alternatives. | | | Shafir, E., and Tversky, A. Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice. |
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| | Amos Tversky quotes and quotations |
| | Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for. | | | Email this page of Amos Tversky quotations to a friend. |
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| | Metapsychology Online Book Reviews - Preference, Belief, and Similarity |
| | Besides these prestigious recognitions and others obtained earlier during his productive career as a cognitive scientist, it is worth mentioning that Tversky's articles regularly receive high ratings in the Social Science Citation Index and his name appears in a list of highly cited researchers posted on the internet by the Institute for Scientific Information. | | | Certainly a must-read book for anybody who has an interest in understanding how great ideas about the functioning of the human mind can account for everyday behavior. | | | In Preference, Belief and Similarity, Eldar Shafir has cleverly assembled a representative array of articles written by Amos Tversky, a cognitive psychologist well-known for his work on judgment and decision making who died in 1996. |
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http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2117
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| | Brian's Digest: People |
| | As you probably know, he had melanoma, with involvement of the liver, and for the past several months we have known that his time was short. | | | With much sorrow, I have to report that Amos Tversky died yesterday. | | | SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 10 Jun 96 Volume 3: Issue 24 |
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http://www.worms.ms.unimelb.edu.au/digest/people.html
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| | Decision Making - Cambridge University Press |
| | Please note that we will not store any email address submitted in the form above, unless either party signs on to our separate email alerting services. | | | Thought you'd be interested in this title from Cambridge University Press. | | | Edited by David E. Bell, Howard Raiffa, Amos Tversky |
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http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/catalogue/email.asp?isbn=0521368510
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| | 3 D. Kahneman and A. Tversky, Econometrica 47 (1979), p. | | | 24 A. Tversky and D. Kahneman, Science 185 (1974), p. |
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| | Amazon.com: Judgment under Uncertainty : Heuristics and Biases: Books |
| | by Daniel Kahneman (Editor), Paul Slovic (Editor), Amos Tversky (Editor) "Suppose you have run an experiment on 20 subjects, and have obtained a significant result which confirms your theory (z = 2.23, p | | | SIPs: biopsy threshold, surprise indices, available bivariate data, causal base rate, five fractiles (more) |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521284147?v=glance
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| | Internet Archive: Details: Decision Making |
| | Be the first to write a review Reviews | | | Author: Bell, David E.; Raiffa, Howard; Tversky, Amos, Eds | | | Bell, David E.; Raiffa, Howard; Tversky, Amos, Eds |
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