Making a Good Hire

Good decision making requires good communication.

The methods used for regulatory decisions must facilitate three kinds of communication: (i) with individual experts who must translate their knowledge into usable form; (ii) among the experts whose pooled knowledge informs those choices; and (iii) between regulators and those affected by their choices. Decision-making methods vary in their reliance on expert judgement and computational methods ...

Making Good Decisions Quickly

Several disciplines, including artificial intelligence, operations research and many others, study how to make good decisions. In this overview article, we argue that the key to making progress in our research area is to combine their ideas, which often requires serious technical advances to reconcile their different assumptions and methods in a way that results in synergy among them. To illust...

Making good Decisions about Decision Making

Can you see that justice is supposed to be blind? Abstract Decision aids are becoming more popular and more accessible thanks to the internet and hand held computers. The question remains, however, if decision aids can be used beyond just aiding the human decision process. Can we use computers to make decisions without loosing out on some of the aspects of decision making that are important to ...

Tips for making a good research proposal.

Making Good Prediction: A Theoretical Framework

We propose approaching prediction from a framework grounded in maximizing correct prediction rates. While this is intuitively obvious, not nearly enough attention has been paid to the creation of a clear theoretical framework for prediction; motivated by the needs of current genome-wise association studies (GWAS) we provide a discussion on such a framework. We lay out an objective function for ...