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Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Introduction to Structured Expert Judgment
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
WEEK 1: Why and when to use SEJ?
WEEK 2: Statistical accuracy (calibration) and information score
WEEK 3: Performance-based weights and the Decision Maker
WEEK 4: Data analysis
WEEK 5: Applications of CM
WEEK 6: Practical matters (biases, experts, elicitation)
Prerequisite
Basic concepts in Probability Theory and Statistics. Links to videos introducing the concepts will be provided.
Instructors
Tina Nane
Assistant Professor of Applied Probability
Delft University of Technology
Anca Hanea
Senior Researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA)
University of Melbourne
Roger Cooke
Chauncey Starr Senior Fellow at Resources for Future in Washington and Emeritus Professor
Delft University of Technology
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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