ON THE DECISION MATRIX AND THE JUDGMENT PROCESS: A DEVELOPMENTAL DECISION EXAMPLE

Abstract

The paper points out that in a decision task involving the selection of a system from a number of competing systems, a single number or figure of merit is usually inadequate to describe the merits of a given system and that a matrix of numbers representing the important parameters is required. A description is given of the parameters in this matrix. Rules are given for reducing the matrix and for drawing conclusions from the reduced matrix. An example involving a developmental decision is included to illustrate the process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0689797

Entities

People

  • Benjamin Pinkel

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
  • Aircrafts
  • Amplification
  • Construction
  • Corporations
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Figure Of Merit
  • Investments
  • Judgment
  • Nuclear Propulsion
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Ratings
  • Reliability
  • Resilience

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