Evaluation of partially described multiattribute options

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE 21,240-251 (1978) Evaluation of Partially Described Multiattribute Options

Thirty-five subjects rated the satisfactoriness of two sets of 125 profiles of hypothetical university courses. The profiles in one set were all complete, containing indicators of the state of each course on each of four attribute dimensions. Fifty of the profiles in the second set were partial representations of profiles from the first set, reporting that the level of one of the attributes was...

Sequential Search with Multiattribute Options

We describe a search problem in which a decision maker (DM) must select several sequentially-encountered options. Each option is described by multiple attributes, and the value of an option is given by a function of its attribute values. However, the attribute values are not known with certainty, and can only be ascertained in a predefined order, at some fixed cost. During the search the DM can...

Multiattribute Evaluation

Evaluation is rapidly becoming Big Business. Questions like "Is this plan wise?" "Should I choose option A or option B?" "At what funding level should this program be supported?" How well is this program doing?" have been asked of social programs since long before we were born . But the idea that one could answer such questions systematically and in a manner other than simply looking at the obj...

Cryptosporidiosis: multiattribute evaluation of six diagnostic methods.

Six diagnostic methods (Giemsa staining, Ziehl-Neelsen staining, auramine-rhodamine staining, Sheather's sugar flotation, an indirect immunofluorescence procedure, and a modified concentration-sugar flotation method) for the detection of Cryptosporidium spp. in stool specimens were compared on the following attributes: diagnostic yield, cost to perform each test, ease of handling, and ability t...

Solutions of the Partially Described Inverse Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem