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New Concept: Decision-making #279

Open davidwhogg opened 5 years ago

davidwhogg commented 5 years ago

Name the new concept Decision-making

Describe the concept Using data to make decisions, such as target selections.

Describe where the concept fits within the existing hierarchy Probably somewhere in the statistics hierarchy.

Provide 1-3 supporting articles here are two of mine: 2010AJ....139.1782L 2001AJ....122.2267E

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BartlettAstro commented 5 months ago

@davidwhogg Could you refine this suggestion? I think the concept of decision-making probably should be better defined, either narrowed or split into different types of decision-making. The two papers you cite seem to be examples of different types for decision making, but perhaps you are seeing connections I am not. A search of ADS (now NASA SciX) comes up with more than 2k refereed astronomical papers that mention decision-making, but again these seem to embrace a range of processes. Conceivably, some type of decision-making could be a child of calibration, astrostatistics, ethnoastronomy, and several other places.