Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Subject "uncertainty"

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Clinical Reasoning in the Real World Is Mediated by Bounded Rationality: Implications for Diagnostic Clinical Practice Guidelines

Rajgor, Dimple; Shah, Jatin; Pietrobon, Ricardo (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Background: Little is known about the reasoning mechanisms used by physicians in decision-making and how this compares to diagnostic clinical practice guidelines. We explored the clinical reasoning process in a real life ...
Cross-Function and Same-Function Alliances: How Does Alliance Structure Affect the Behavior of Partnering Firms?

Amaldoss, Wilfred; Staelin, Richard (INFORMS, 2010)

Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have ...
Risk communication in clinical trials: A cognitive experiment and a survey

Cheung, Yin Bun; Yong, Yu Fen; Tan, Say Beng (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: A Royal Statistical Society Working Party recently recommended that "Greater use should be made of numerical, as opposed to verbal, descriptions of risk" in first-in-man clinical trials. This echoed the view ...
A Soft Robust Model for Optimization Under Ambiguity

Brown, Prof David (INFORMS, 2010)

In this paper, we propose a framework for robust optimization that relaxes the standard notion of robustness by allowing the decision maker to vary the protection level in a smooth way across the uncertainty set. We apply ...