An Operational Approach to Record Linkage

1983 ◽  
Vol 22 (02) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Mi ◽  
J. T. Kagawa ◽  
M. E. Earle
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Record Linkage ◽  
Operational Approach ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
Rate Of Failure

An operational approach to computerized record linkage has been developed based on the concept of probability of chance match in two groups of records brought together for comparison. Tolerance levels can be readily derived from these records for decision-making in accepting or rejecting a linked pair. This approach is especially suitable for iteration when linked pairs are removed in successive cycles. An application of linkage for death clearance of the 1942 resident population of 437,967 registered in Hawaii during a 38-year period from 1942 to 1979 is presented. The reliability of linkage and rate of failure were analyzed.

scholarly journals DECISION MAKING PRINCIPLES IN LAND DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhailizan Suliman ◽  
Salfarina Samsudin ◽  
Mohd Hamdan Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Operational Approach ◽  
Land Use Conflict ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Development Application

The inconsistency of legal coordination is one of the contributing factors in land use conflict. This scenario implicates various objections to the court due to the dissatisfaction of the landowners and developers with the decision of land development approval. In Malaysia, studies about land use conflict in land development conducted by previous researchers only cater on conflict factors and not in the perspective of its operational approach by the stakeholder. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the decision-making principles for decision-makers in grant land development approval. This paper adopts qualitative methods that consist of two types of data collection. The first method used was desk study analysis of ten (10) file cases of development application and the second method involved is an in-depth interview with selected respondents. The result from the analysis of ten (10) file cases determined the decision-making trends that were then cross-tabulated with the five principles of decision-making by using an indepth interview with the selected respondents. The result from the analysis indicates five principles of decision-making which is intuition, rational, power, factual, and experience. The findings of this paper contribute towards the aspects of strategic decision-making, decision-maker practices, and further research. A comprehensive decision-making principle will then minimise the risk of fallacy in decision-making.

scholarly journals Two Cases of Failure in Merger: Is it Over Confidence?

2011 ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Kalpataru Bandopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Rate Of Failure

There were high rate of failure in mergers and acquisitions all over the world. Even after due diligence conducted by own qualified staffs and by expert consulting firm, the calculation may go wrong. Many researchers observed behavioural biasness during the decision making process of the deal as one of the causes of such failure. Here, the paper makes an attempt to identify human biasness in relation to decisions regarding mergers with the help of analysing two cases in Indian context. The said mergers could not succeed apparently due to the underestimation of risk by the acquirer probably arising out of the overconfidence.

End-Users' Perception from Housing Needs Based on Maslow's Theory of Motivation

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayyed Javad Asad Poor Zavei ◽  
Mahmud Bin Mohd Jusan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
End Users ◽  
Latent Structure ◽  
Operational Approach ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Mass Housing ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
One Year ◽  
Housing Attributes ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Providing operational approach to end-users' motivational tendencies in housing facilitates user-centered approach enhancing person-environment congruence. The operational approach is highly critical in case of inaccessibility of end-users in decision making, i.e. mass housing. Therefore, this study aims at explaining end-users' housing motivations from their housing attributes preferences, through a theoretical framework developed based on Maslow's theory. The investigation was carried out by using a self-administered questionnaire conducted on 127 Iranian postgraduate students of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and their spouse who lived alongside them. They were selected from those who lived more than one year in mass housing apartments in Malaysia. Using exploratory factor analysis, the housing attributes preferences were analyzed to underlie the latent structure and relations among them; the extracted factors were also labeled based on the different level of needs. Then, conducting one sample t-test hierarchical tendencies among the different motivational factors were identified. Referring to Maslow's theory to explain the concept and characteristics of housing needs results in identification of two different categories of housing attributes in association with the different level of needs. Accordingly, primary levels of needs that associate with relatively tangible and concrete attributes are more likely to be content-specific and predictable. The higher levels of needs that associate with relatively complicated and abstract attributes are more likely to be problematical, confusing, and non-predictable.

Discarding optimality: Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Simen ◽  
Fuat Balcı
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Perceptual Decision Making ◽  
Reward Rate ◽  
Perceptual Decision ◽  
Standard Observer ◽  
Rate Maximization ◽  
Reward Rate Maximization ◽  
Descriptive Standard ◽  
Observer Model

AbstractRahnev & Denison (R&D) argue against normative theories and in favor of a more descriptive “standard observer model” of perceptual decision making. We agree with the authors in many respects, but we argue that optimality (specifically, reward-rate maximization) has proved demonstrably useful as a hypothesis, contrary to the authors’ claims.

LPCD framework: Analytical tool or psychological model?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Danks
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Bayesian Decision ◽  
Perceptual Decision Making ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
Psychological Reality ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Bayesian Decision Making

AbstractThe target article uses a mathematical framework derived from Bayesian decision making to demonstrate suboptimal decision making but then attributes psychological reality to the framework components. Rahnev & Denison's (R&D) positive proposal thus risks ignoring plausible psychological theories that could implement complex perceptual decision making. We must be careful not to slide from success with an analytical tool to the reality of the tool components.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

The primacy of conscious decision making – ERRATUM

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
David R. Shanks ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conscious Decision
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