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Mathematical decision making : predictive models and optimization.

Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Company, 2015.

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

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The great courses. Science & mathematics. Mathematics

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics Mathematics.

Decision making -- Mathematical models.

Mathematical optimization.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Teaching Company, publisher.

"Course no. 1342"--Disc label.

Course consists of 24 lectures.

Each lecture approximately 30 min.

Bibliographical references included in course guidebook (pages 250-255).

Lecturer: Scott P. Stevens, James Madison University.

DVD.

The operations research superhighway -- Forecasting with simple linear regression -- Nonlinear trends and multiple regression -- Time series forecasting -- Data mining--exploration and prediction -- Data mining for affinity and clustering -- Optimization--goals, decisions and constraints -- Linear programming and optimal network flow -- Scheduling and multiperiod planning -- Visualizing solutions to linear programs -- Solving linear programs in a spreadsheet -- Sensitivity analysis--trust the answer? -- Integer programming--all or nothing -- Where is the efficiency frontier -- Programs with multiple goals -- Optimization in a nonlinear landscape -- Nonlinear models--best location, best pricing -- Randomness, probability, and expectation -- Decision trees--which scenario is best? -- Bayesian analysis of new information -- Markov models--how a random walk evolves -- Queuing--why waiting lines work or fail -- Monte Carlo simulation for a better job bid -- Stochastic optimization and risk.

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