Word Clouds (created at Wordle.net) for the latest draft manuscript. Book coming summer 2010 from McGraw-Hill/Irwin

1. coming summer 2010 from McGraw-Hill/Irwin Word Clouds created at Wordle.net, using the Dec. 2009 draft manuscript

2. Brief Contents Introduction 1. Studying Decision & Information Analysis Unit I – Analyzing Decisions 2. Getting Started with Decision Analysis: Developing an Analytical Strategy 3. Finding the Best Path: Decisions without Uncertainties 4. Comparing Forked Paths: Decisions with Uncertainties Unit II – Working with Risk & Uncertainty 5. Getting Started with Probability: Modeling Uncertainty & Imperfect Information 6. Working with Random Variables: Uncertainties about Numbers 7. Working with Common Families of Probability Distributions Unit III – Developing Quantitative Facts 8. Getting Started with Data Analysis: Acquiring, Building & Cleaning 9. Exploring Data: Describing & Summarizing 10. Exploring Multivariate Data: Making Sense of Association Unit IV – Interpreting Sample Data 11. Connecting Populations & Samples 12. Making Interval Estimates: Specific Statements about Unknown Populations 13. Evaluating the Strength of Evidence: Hypothesis Testing 14. Making Other Inferences from Sample Data: Variance, Independence & 2-Sample Comparisons 15. Simulating Uncertainties: Samples of Outcomes Unit V – Estimating & Predicting 16. Making Predictions – and Improving them using Regression 17. Using Multiple Variables in Predictive Regressions 18. Building Predictive & Causal Regression Models 19. Drawing Conclusions & Making Predictions from Time Series& Ordered Data

3. Chapter 1

4. Chapter 2

5. Chapter 3

6. Chapter 4

7. Chapter 5

8. Chapter 6

9. Chapter 7

10. Chapter 8

11. Chapter 9

12. Chapter 10

13. Chapter 11

14. Chapter 12

15. Chapter 13

16. Chapter 14

17. Chapter 15

18. Chapter 16

19. Chapter 17

20. Chapter 18

21. Chapter 19