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Decision theory (or the theory of choice) is a branch of applied probability theory and analytic philosophy concerned with the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and assigning numerical consequences to the outcome.[1]
There are three branches of decision theory:
Decision theory is a broad field from management sciences and is an interdisciplinary topic, studied by economists, management scientists, medical researchers, mathematicians, data scientists, psychologists, biologists,[2] social scientists, philosophers[3] and computer scientists.
Empirical applications of this theory are usually done with the help of statistical and discrete mathematical approaches from computer science.
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