1st Edition

What Every Engineer Should Know About Decision Making Under Uncertainty

By John X. Wang Copyright 2002
328 Pages
by CRC Press

320 Pages
by CRC Press

328 Pages
by CRC Press

Covering the prediction of outcomes for engineering decisions through regression analysis, this succinct and practical reference presents statistical reasoning and interpretational techniques to aid in the decision making process when faced with engineering problems. The author emphasizes the use of spreadsheet simulations and decision trees as important tools in the practical application of... Read more
1. Engineering: Making Hard Decisions under Uncertainty 2. Engineering Judgment for Discrete Uncertain Variables 3. Decision Analysis Involving Continuous Uncertain Variables 4. Correlation of Random Variables and Estimating Confidence 5. Performing Engineering Predictions 6. Engineering Decision Variables – Analysis and Optimization 7. Project Scheduling and Budgeting under Uncertainty 8. Process Control – Decisions based on Charts and Indexes 9. Engineering Decision Making: A New Paradigm

Biography

Wang, John X.