A Comment on the Compound Decision Theory

Does Law Have a Function? A Comment on the Two-Level Theory of Decision

A Compound Decision Support System for Corporate Planning

Providing a plan for any corporate or firm at macro level, as an organization or enterprise resource planning has particular importance nowadays. To meet the enterprise resource planning needs applications software packages provide a set of uniform pre-prepared and pre-designed that covers all business process throughout an organization. To achieve maximum efficiency in the implementation of th...

Invited Paper Compound Decision Theory and Empirical Bayes Methods

1. Introduction. Compound decision theory and empirical Bayes methodology , acclaimed as " two breakthroughs " by Neyman (1962), are the most important contributions of Herbert Robbins to statistics. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief description of his work in these two intimately connected fields, its impact and a number of important related developments. Robbins introduced compo...

Low Decision Space Means No Decentralization in Fiji; Comment on “Decentralisation of Health Services in Fiji: A Decision Space Analysis”

Mohammed, North, and Ashton find that decentralization in Fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. Decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. They surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....

Decentralisation, Decision Space and Directions for Future Research; Comment on “Decentralisation of Health Services in Fiji: A Decision Space Analysis”

Decentralisation continues to re-appear in health system reform across the world. Evaluation of these reforms reveals how research on decentralisation continues to evolve. In this paper, we examine the theoretical foundations and empirical references which underpin current approaches to studying decentralisation in health systems.