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Peer reviewedKraft, Donald H. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973
A decision theory approach is used to model the information retrieval decision problem of which documents to retrieve from a library collection in response to a specific user query for information. Thorough discussions of decision theory and Bayesian statistics are presented. (19 references) (Author/SJ)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making, Evaluation, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedYovits, M. C.; Foulk, C. R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1985
Describes experiments relating information to decision making. The experiments were developed to validate previously suggested conceptual model of information flow and its relation to decision making and to establish specific values for significant parameters involved. Background and summary of recent research and experimental design and research…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Information Theory
