Some Comments on Cost-Effectiveness

Abstract

Contents: Distinction between systems analysis and cost effectiveness; Limitations of analyses in defense planning; Pitfalls of analyses in defense planning; The "cherished belief" leading to an "attention bias;" the most frequent cause of failure to look at a full range of alternatives; Transferring a portion of an administrator's decisionmaking function to a model; Current status of systems analysis; Advantages of systems analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1965
Accession Number
AD0615394

Entities

People

  • E. S. Quade

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Costs
  • Damage Assessment
  • Defense Planning
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military Planning
  • Models
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Second World War
  • Strategic Bombing
  • Systems Analysis
  • United States
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.