Decision analysis

Thoughts, essays, etc by Samuel Weisenthal

• 4/9/2026

  A consensus on causality?

• 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

• 7/16/2023

  The added utility from ordering a test

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  6/20/2023

  Relative sparsity for medical decision problems

• 6/11/2023

  Counterfactuals and expected utility theory

• 6/4/2023

  Decision analysis reveals complexity

• 5/21/2023

  The counterfactual must be recorded

• 5/14/2023

  Responsibilities and protection associated with decision analysis

• 4/23/2023

  History of decision analysis

• 4/16/2023

  Why are all confounders needed?

• 4/9/2023

  Whose reward are we optimizing, anyway?

• 4/2/2023

  Estimating expected reward using data

• 3/26/2023

  Some benefits of decision analysis

• 2/26/2023

  Importance sampling, inverse probability weighting, and off-policy reinforcement learning

• 2/12/2023

  Reinforcement learning in medicine