Econ 476/Econ 676/ ComSci 576: Decision Theory I (Fall, 2002)
Course Notes

• Prof. Blume's notes on ordinal representations.
• Prof. Halpern's lecture notes on decision rules; also available in 4 transparencies/page format, if you want to save some trees.
• Prof. Halpern's lecture notes discussing competitive ratio and the midterm questions; also available in 4 transparencies/page format.
• Prof. Blume's notes on belief.
• Prof. Halpern's lecture notes on Bayesian networks, influence diagrams, utility elicitation, effects of framing, and Newcomb's paradox (updated 12/5); also available in 4 transparencies/page format, but without the Bayesian network figure. (I had problems converting it to this format.)
• Prof. Easley's notes on the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes.
• An interesting medical decision problem.
• Prof. Halpern's lecture notes for the first two weeks of ECON 477/677;CIS 577, covering representations of uncertainty that avoid Ellsberg's paradox and case-based decision theory; also available in 4 transparencies/page format.
• Prof. Easley's lecture notes on his work with Rustichini.
• Prof. Easley's (complete) lecture notes on dynamic programming.
• Prof. Halpern's lecture notes discussing reinforcement learning and imperfect recall