Decision analysis

Thoughts, essays, etc. A blog by Samuel Weisenthal.

• 12/12/2025

  On the acceptable range of model calibration

• 12/1/2025

  GPT-5 and medical decisions

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  11/9/2025

  Decision analysis and medical research

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  10/19/2025

  Decision analysis and insurance

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  8/25/2025

  Decision analysis and the pharmaceutical industry

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  7/3/2025

  Should chatbots make medical decisions?

• 6/1/2025

  Ode to an appendix

• 4/4/2025

  Reflections on Relative Sparsity

• 1/28/2025

  Clinical trials and decision analysis

• 1/27/2025

  Decision analysis defines roles in a malpractice trial

• 12/14/2024

  The kindness of decision analysis

• 12/8/2024

  Decision analysis and the real world

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  8/17/2024

  The roles assigned by decision analysis

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  7/14/2024

  Decision analysis (a probabilistic treatment)

• 4/21/2024

  This model is basically alive!

• 2/4/2024

  “Good” is in expectation

• 1/21/2024

  Probability is not utility

• 10/29/2023

  Utility before probability

• 8/20/2023

  Ideal estimand for a trial

• 7/30/2023

  Bleeding vs. clotting