Personalized Decision Making -- A Conceptual Introduction
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09558v1
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:21:29 GMT
- Title: Personalized Decision Making -- A Conceptual Introduction
- Authors: Scott Mueller and Judea Pearl
- Abstract summary: We show that by combining experimental and observational studies we can obtain valuable information about individual behavior.
We conclude that by combining experimental and observational studies we can improve decisions over those obtained from experimental studies alone.
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- Abstract: Personalized decision making targets the behavior of a specific individual,
while population-based decision making concerns a sub-population resembling
that individual. This paper clarifies the distinction between the two and
explains why the former leads to more informed decisions. We further show that
by combining experimental and observational studies we can obtain valuable
information about individual behavior and, consequently, improve decisions over
those obtained from experimental studies alone.
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