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Lecture 8 Biomedical Decision Making: Reasoning and Decision Support

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At the end of the eighth lecture, you:

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Holzinger, A. (2014). Lecture 8 Biomedical Decision Making: Reasoning and Decision Support. In: Biomedical Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04528-3_8

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