Download or read book Statistics for Making Decisions written by Nicholas T. Longford and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A constructive response to the criticisms of using hypothesis testing for making decisions Integrating the context (the client’s perspective, value judgments, priorities and remits) in the analysis, combining it with sensitivity analysis that handles the uncertainty arising in elicitation of the context Treatment of the problems by elementary (analytical) methods Applications that illustrate the methods in their best light • Drawing on several publications in high-profile journals in applied statistics