Medical Decision Making and the Counting of Uncertainty

Medical Decision Making and the Counting of Uncertainty Running title : Ye ; Medical decision making and uncertainty

Medical Decision Making and the Counting of Uncertainty Running title :

Medical decision making and the counting of uncertainty.

In economic theory, homo economicus is a concept used to explain decision-making as a rational exercise.1 The “economic man”, to use the term often associated with the work of the utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mills, is someone who makes decisions by carefully weighing the benefits and costs of his options, then deciding on a course of action that maximizes his utility. Although now consi...

Decision making under uncertainty

Decision Making with Uncertainty

In this paper we discuss decision making based on incomplete knowledge. Asthe results of our decisions have always some uncertainties in these cases, we developeda method to measure the advantages brought by those possible solutions of our problem,which makes our decision making problem easier. Our proposal is entirely formulizedwithin the so called classical two valued logic, so it has a solid...