Introduction to Technology Forecasting and Assessment methods

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A Note on Technology Forecasting & Technology Assessment

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Introduction. Bayesian approaches to technology assessment and decision making.

Until the mid-1980s, most economic analyses of healthcare technologies were based on decision theory and used decision-analytic models. The goal was to synthesize all relevant clinical and economic evidence for the purpose of assisting decision makers to efficiently allocate society’s scarce resources. This was true of virtually all the early cost-effectiveness evaluations sponsored and/or publ...

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چکیده: بررسی ادبیات مربوطه در کشور در زمینه یادگیری زبان انگلیسی نشان می‎دهد که علی‎رغم اهمیت املا در فرآیند یادگیری به طور عام و یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به طور خاص، این مولفه از جایگاهی متناسب با اهمیت آن برخوردار نیست و عمدتاً نادیده گرفته شده است. تحقیقات گسترده‎ای در خارج از کشور در مورد ماهیت این مولفه صورت گرفته است، در حالی که به جرأت می‎توان گفت در داخل کشور گامی در مورد درک ماهیت آن و فرآی...

An Introduction to Financial Forecasting

The major focus of this course will be the techniques that are commonly used by financial managers to forecast financial situations. The course also will deal with financial planning and financial modeling, because these are so closely related to forecasting. A considerable portion of this course is devoted to quantitative forecasting techniques, but this is not because forecasting should be do...