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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Decisions and Sensitivity Analysis

Author : Emanuele Borgonovo

Published in: Sensitivity Analysis

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We are living in a new era on the verge of a data-driven economy.

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Footnotes
1
The author is indebted to Dr. Luca Mari, Professor at Carlo Cattaneo University in Castellanza, Italy, for a very illuminating discussion of this topic.
 
2
To be truly rigorous, we would need to provide a definition of real world, but we are content with the common-sense meaning of this expression.
 
3
Niels Bohr, the famous Danish physicist who won a Nobel prize for physics in 1922, stated: Forecasting is easy ... for the past.
 
4
Howard, RA. 1983. The evolution of decision analysis. R. A., Howard, J. E. Matheson, eds. 1989. The Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis. Strategic Decisions Group, Menlo Park, CA.
 
Metadata
Title
Decisions and Sensitivity Analysis
Author
Emanuele Borgonovo
Copyright Year
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52259-3_1