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One formulation of the general decision problem starts from a set of possible stochastic models specifying the resulting probability distributions Pα on some sample space X. Here α is a general parameter in some parameter space A. Both X and A can, of course, be high-dimensional vector spaces or function spaces.

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Freiberger, W., Grenander, U. (1971). Decision Problems. In: A Course in Computational Probability and Statistics. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 6. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9837-3_6

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