Robert Schlaifer

Thinkers1914 to 1994Statistician

Works

  • Applied Statistical Decision Theory (with Howard Raiffa), 1961

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Known for

At Harvard Business School he and Howard Raiffa built Bayesian decision theory into a method for business decisions: assign probabilities to uncertain outcomes, update them with evidence, and choose the act with the highest expected value. Their 1961 book is a founding text of decision analysis.

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