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Supplement 1-1
Lecture Outline
Decision Analysis
Decision Making without Probabilities
Decision Analysis with Excel
Decision Analysis with OM Tools
Decision Making with Probabilities
Expected Value of Perfect Information
Sequential Decision Tree
Supplement 1-2
Decision Analysis
Quantitative methods
a set of tools for operations manager
Decision analysis
a set of quantitative decision-making
techniques for decision situations in which
uncertainty exists
Example of an uncertain situation
demand for a product may vary between 0 and 200
units, depending on the state of market
Supplement 1-3
Supplement 1-4
Payoff Table
Payoff table
method for organizing and illustrating payoffs from
different decisions given various states of nature
Payoff
outcome of a decision
Decision
1
2
States Of Nature
a
b
Payoff 1a
Payoff 1b
Payoff 2a
Payoff 2b
Supplement 1-5
Maximin
choose decision with the maximum of the
minimum payoffs
Minimax regret
choose decision with the minimum of the
maximum regrets for each alternative
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Supplement 1-7
Supplement 1-8
Maximax Solution
A very optimistic method
Expand:
Status quo:
Sell:
$800,000
1,300,000 Maximum
320,000
Decision: Maintain status quo
Supplement 1-9
1-9
Maximin Solution
A pessimistic method
Expand:
Status quo:
Sell:
$500,000 Maximum
-150,000
320,000
Decision: Expand
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States of Nature
Poor Foreign
Competitive Conditions
Expand:
Status quo:
Sell:
$500,000 - 500,000 = 0
500,000 - (-150,000)= 650,000
500,000 - 320,000= 180,000
$500,000 Minimum
650,000
980,000
Decision: Expand
Supplement 1-11
Hurwicz Criteria
= 0.3
1 - = 0.7
Maximum
Decision: Expand
Supplement 1-12
Decision: Expand
Supplement 1-13
= MIN(C6:D8)
= MAX(D6:D8)-F7
= MAX(F6:F8)
= MAX(G7:H7)
= C19*E7+C20*F7)
= .5*E8+.5*F8
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Supplement 1-15
Supplement 1-16
Expected Value
EV (x) =
p(xi)xi
i =1
where
xi = outcome i
p(xi) = probability of outcome i
Supplement 1-17
p(good) = 0.70
p(poor) = 0.30
Supplement 1-18
Expected value
computed
in cell D6
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Supplement 1-20
EVPI
Good conditions will exist 70% of the time
choose maintain status quo with payoff of
$1,300,000
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Supplement 1-22
Evaluations at Nodes
Compute EV at nodes 6 & 7
EV(node 6)= 0.80($3,000,000) + 0.20($700,000) = $2,540,000
EV(node 7)= 0.30($2,300,000) + 0.70($1,000,000)= $1,390,000
Choose Expand
Repeat expected value calculations and decisions at
remaining nodes
Supplement 1-23
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$1,360,000
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$3,000,000
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$790,000
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$2,300,000
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$210,000
Supplement 1-24
Supplement 1-25