Decision-making in environmental management requires eliciting preferences of
stakeholders and predicting outcomes of decision alternatives. Usually, preferences and …

In many decisions, we are not only uncertain about the predicted outcomes of decision
alternatives but also about stakeholder preferences regarding these outcomes. Further …

We consider the natural combination of two strands of recent statistical research, ie, that of
decision making with uncertain utility and that of Nonparametric Predictive Inference (NPI) …

Accurate information sources are vital prerequisites for good decision making. Here, we
consider a multiple participant setting, where all decision makers have a collection of …

This article discusses the author's views on possible contributions statistics can make to
software testing and reliability. Several difficulties are highlighted and several research …

Electoral democracies are built on the idea of representation. The electorate selects
politicians to represent their interests in the law-making process. Given that citizens hold …

Learning preferences for decision-making processes has been an area of substantial
research in recent years, especially given the introduction of Recommender systems (RSs) …

We consider an extension to Sequential Probability Ratio Tests for when we have uncertain
costs, but also opportunity to learn about these in an adaptive manner. In doing so we …

The use of the conjugacy property for members of the exponential family of distributions is
commonplace within Bayesian statistical analysis, allowing for tractable and simple …