optimal decision

collocation in English

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optimal
adjective
uk
/ˈɒp.tɪ.məl/us
/ˈɑːp.tə.məl/
best; most likely to bring success ...
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decision
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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Their ignorance of the real world is thus summarized in this stochastic specification, and the resultingoptimaldecisionrule is only rational given this specification.
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Each period the farmer implements the current-periodoptimaldecision, conditional on expected future decisions.
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Thus, the government is constrained by the private agents'optimaldecisionrules.
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In considering these criteria, legal and economic scholars have utilized instruments fromoptimaldecision theory, public choice theory, and constitutional political economy.
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Delayed maturation in female bank voles:optimaldecisionor social constraint?
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In general, the learnable decision function is not unique and may not coincide with theoptimaldecisionfunction even if that function is attainable.
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Theoptimaldecisionrules show increased risk-taking for funding ratios moving away from the discounted value of the reference point.
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A rational agent will not knowingly ignore information about his economic environment when formingoptimaldecisionrules.
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Theoptimaldecisionrule depends on the expected prices for rice and mango, the discount factor and a coefficient of (constant) relative risk aversion.
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The solution shows how an exogenous harvest rule affects theoptimaldecisionto plant or exercise the option provided by the plantation lease.
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The thesis that behavioral economics attacks is that people behave rationally in a conscious way-that they consciously calculate and make anoptimaldecisionbased, in each case, on rational calculations.
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However, the more challenging issue is deciding where theoptimaldecisionthreshold is for a test, and how to pick a threshold that would be robust and generalizable.
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Bayesian decision analysis provides an analytical framework for identifying theoptimaldecisionby combining the probability distribution around the outcome parameters with estimates of the loss function.
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Since the normative,optimaldecisionoften creates hypotheses for testing against actual behaviour, the two fields are closely linked.
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This, however, does not yield theoptimaldecisionchoice.
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Due to this, though anoptimaldecisionis attainable, it will likely not be realized.
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Truly rational decision-making requires a tremendous investment in information and cognition to arrive at anoptimaldecision.
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It falls upon the policymakers to make theoptimaldecision, if there is any risk, even without any credible scientific evidence.
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One improvement that can be made on the algorithm can be to use backtracking during the search for theoptimaldecisiontree.
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