Information and decision processes /

• Main Author: Machol, Robert E. (Robert Engel), 1917-1998 (ed.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1960
• Subjects: TEORIA DE LA INFORMACION; DECISIONES ESTADISTICAS; TEORIA DE LA COMUNICACION

Table of Contents:

• Computation in decision making
• Motivation for an approach to the sequential design of experiments
• Some problems concerning the consistency of mathematical models
• Sequential decisioning
• Lower bounds for the expected sample size of a sequential test
• On some aspects of models of complex behavioral systems
• An aggregation problem for markov chains
• Coding theorems for a discrete source with a fidelity criterion
• Group testing to classify efficiently all units in a binomial sample
• Some open problems in the foundations of subjetive probability
• Statistical decision theory in engineering
• On channels in which the distribution of error is known. Only to the receiver or only to the sender.