CHDS Seminar with Thomas Trikalinos of Brown University
Join The Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Thomas Trikalinos of Brown University, “Propagating Ambiguity into Decision Analyses of Test-and-Treat Strategies.” This presentation will discuss the basics of decision making under ambiguity, also known as “deep uncertainty” or “pervasive uncertainty.” Operationally, ambiguity is defined as uncertainty that the analyst is unwilling or unable to describe with a probability measure model, but is willing to describe with alternative uncertainty models, specifically, with uncertainty sets. For concreteness, it will address the decision analysis of whether the US should screen immigrants for latent tuberculosis infection, a problem with deep uncertainty about the performance of screening tests.
Speaker Information
Thomas Trikalinos
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