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The Challenge of Making Good Decisions

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How do we make good decisions?

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    The notion of robustness used in this book goes beyond the stability of the conclusions to the sensitivity analysis. The reader will discover the extent to which the concept of robustness has been applied throughout the book.

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Merad, M., Trump, B.D. (2020). The Challenge of Making Good Decisions. In: Expertise Under Scrutiny. Risk, Systems and Decisions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20532-4_1

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