DECISION MODELING FOR BIOSTATISTICAL APPLICATIONS Biostatistics 140.664 This is a random collection of papers and links. Enjoy! Most of the papers are good example of possible class presentations.

"Uncertainty and Decisions in Medical Informatics" (postscript) , by Peter Szolovits of the MIT LCS Clinical Decision Making Group

"Prediction and Decision Making Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models" (postscript), by Dalene Stangl

"Modeling Mortality Rates for Elderly Heart Attack Patients: Profiling Hospitals in the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project" (postscript), by Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Mark E. Glickman and Thomas J. Ryan

"Group Sequential Clinical Trials: A Classical Evaluation of Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Designs" (postscript) , by Roger J. Lewis and Donald A. Berry

Müller, P. (1999). ``Simulation Based Optimal Design'', in Bayesian Statistics 6 , J.O. Berger, J.M. Bernardo, A.P. Dawid and A.F.M. Smith (eds.), to appear. (postscript)

"Dynamic Programming and Decision Theory" (postscript) , by Dennis Lindley

"An Introduction to Dynamic Programming" (postscript) , by M. G. Simpson

"Optimal Experimental Design for Another's Analysis" (postscript) , by Etzioni and Kadane

"Optimal Bayesian Sequential Estimation of the Median Effective Dose" (postscript) , by P. R. Freeman

Link Lisk of The Society for Medical Decision Making

Links to Decision Analysis Courses and Syllabi

Bob Nau's wonderful Who's who and what's what in the history of rational choice theory, broadly defined