SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Using Probability to Help with Decisions under Uncertainty

Essays 1 - 30

Using Probability to Help with Decisions under Uncertainty

to evaluate collective costs. The calculation will need input that is representative of the physical results of the current action...

The Use of Statistical Analysis to Cut Costs

these past sales statistics to give an indication on the potential for a sale to be lost because the delivery cannot take place on...

Probability in Decision Making

To assess this will assume that there are the following probabilities given are 1/4 that there is a member of the population who i...

Forecasting Stock Needs using Statistics

the same general trend will be seen, this is usually performed using the ordinary least squares (OLS) method (McCullagh and Nelder...

Decision Making Under Uncertainty; Case Study

large capacity option, as this has the potential, with a string demand of creating 50 million dollars of profit. This may be seen ...

Drawing and Using a Decision Tree

Decision trees can be useful tool when making decisions. The writer looks at what a decision tree can do, and then uses a scenari...

An Example of How a Decision under Uncertainty May Be Assessed in the Business Environment

has been built, and more potential customers are travelling away from the store (Kotler and Keller, 2008). One of the first appro...

The Selection and Use Secondary and Gathering of Primary Data - A Practical Demonstration

range of sources. The most influential article should be those from peer-reviewed journals, where previous research is reported. P...

Financial Theory and Corporate Policy

choice will be made between the alternatives (Elton et al, 2002). There may be situations where there is certainty of outcome. Thi...

Questions on Probability

The writer looks at the way that probability is used, creating some questions on probability and explaining the answers. Further q...

Ethics and Leadership

leadership the determination of what is ethical leadership and how it can be practiced and identified will be placed into a more m...

Consumption and Investment Decision Making

whatever the situation, the analysis that listed decision will involve considering the alternatives and the determination of the c...

Student Supplied Case Study on Probability

will give us a 1 in 12 million chance. However we need to look at this in order to consider how correct it is. Here we can look at...

Using Statistics to Assess Investments

Answering questions set by the student, the writer shows how may be useful in assessing investments. The first part of the paper l...

Probability Distribution

the figure above the line is a one, and there are two possible outcomes, this means the number below the line is 2, giving us 1/2....

Business Decisions and Statistical Analysis

it is often necessary for organizations to make decisions in the absence of certainty. Practically speaking, certainty is almost t...

Budgets, Ethics and Accounting Information in the Case of Guillermo Furniture

as may market performance reports. This adds additional information into the decision making process. Question 2 Ethics are alw...

Overview of Decision Support Systems

the MIS may be its ability to simulate future situations and be adapted to account for a variety of futures so that not only is t...

Business Decision Making and Account Uses

sales are still falling short on the budgeted figures, This may lead the individual to believe that the long term nature of Septem...

Using Statistics - Nyke and the One Size Shoe Plan

The writer uses statistics in a case designed to show how statistical analysis can help with the decision making process. Nyke, a ...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

A Method to Make Decisions

There are many types of decisions made in organizations every day. This essay discusses a decision making process but within the d...

Judgments and Rational Thinking

ecologically rational if it is adapted to the structure of the environment (Bounded Rationality, 2003). Bazerman (1998) describe...

Families Should Decide Own Health Goals

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

Disneyland Paris; the Problems of Euro Disney

still present. When Disney announced the building of the new theme park in Europe a total 110 cities all vied for the oppo...

Support for Women Entrepreneurs in the UAE

programmes, but there is a general lack of any substantial support (Haan, 2003). The nature of the social structure and the posi...

Calculating Probability when given a Mean and the Standard Deviation

The writer shows how the probability for a particular outcome for an investment may be calculated when the mean return and standa...

Using Statistical Analysis and Explaining Probability

collected on the same date each month, the 12th. However, even during a day there are a number of different data points which coul...

Survey Methodological Issues

be counted. Question 2 Probability v. non probability sampling Probability sampling is a random sampling style, the basis of thi...

Third Cycle Investment Recommendation for Aquine

chance that the watch will pass the certification. This is a doubling of the chances of failure from 1 in 3 to 2 in 3, and as such...