TreeAge Software - Decision Analysis Software and Resources
Free Trial version of easy-to-use Decision Analysis Software. Powerful decision tree / decision analysis software helps you:

• Model problems as decision trees, Markov models or influence diagrams.
• Analyze decision based models & make better decisions using expected value calculations, cost-effectiveness analysis, probabilistic sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulation.
• Communicate results interactively, including recommended strategy, cost-effective options, underlying analysis, best decisions and supporting assumptions.

Air Force Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Links to a Bayesian Networks page with tutorials, tools, bibliography and links to other Bayesian resources.

Decision Analysis Courses and Syllabi
Links to decision analysis courses and syllabi available on the web. Note that these are not limited to medical decision analysis courses.

Internet Literacy Consultants
An extensive glossary of terms used on and pertaining to the Internet.

Pharma Lexicon
Look up the most popular medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations, and find out what they stand for.

Cancer Prediction Tools from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have produced several software applications for predicting the development or prognosis of some common cancers. These software applications are available for online execution or for download to Windows, Palm, or PocketPC devices.

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

Guidelines International Network

Lumina Decision Systems
Max Henrion, of Lumina Decision Systems, has put together an outstanding meta-site containing links to a variety of decision sciences-oriented resources.

MGH Institute for Technology Assessment
Originally named the Decision Analysis and Technology Assessment (DATA) Group, the DATA Group became the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA) in 2002 and celebrated its 10-Year Anniversary in October of 2007. The mission of the ITA is to conduct health outcomes research to guide the development, evaluation and utilization of medical technologies that improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of medical care.

The Microsoft Decision Theory and Adaptive Systems Group
This group developed the "paper clip" character in Windows 95 that uses Bayesian reasoning to diagnose faults and to guess what kind of help you need. The group is investigating the use of probability and utility theory to enhance computer applications and platforms.

The MIT LCS Clinical Decision Making Group
This is home to the Medical Decisions Group headed by Peter Szolovits. Activities include electronic health record projects (Guardian Angel and the W3 -EMRS project).

Trial Bank Project
Structured knowledge bases of randomized trials for supporting meta-analysis and evidence-based medicine.

University of Michigan Decision Consortium
UM's Decision Consortium is a University-wide distributed center for decision scholarship.

Web-Based Interactive Decision Support
The Cardiac Arrhythmia and Risk of Death Patient Outcomes Research Team (CARD PORT) modeling group homepage allows the user to perform interactive analyses on the underlying model. This page is still under development. For access, send email to Gillian Sanders at sanders@smi.stanford.edu.

MEDTAP International
A health services research firm that specializes in
health outcomes and health economics research

Probabilistic Modeling Process
This site presents the decision- analysis process for both public and private decision-making, using different decision criteria, different types of information, and information of varying quality.

Program for Improving Health Care Decisions
This site describes The Program for Improving Health Care Decisions (PIHCD) which is an interdisciplinary program jointly sponsored by the Ann Arbor VAMC and the University of Michigan.

Peter Wakker's Annotated Biliography

Principles of Forecasting
The goal of the Forecasting Principles site is to summarize all useful knowledge about forecasting so that it can be used by researchers, practitioners, and educators. This knowledge is provided as principles (guidelines, prescription, rules, conditions, action statements, or advice) about what to do in given situations. The principles apply to management, operations research, and the social sciences

Etiologic Predictive Value
Diagnostic tests might mislead us if carriers of the etiologic agent which our test is designed to detect are present. Etiologic predictive value take this potential error into consideration