Opportunity Loss Is the Difference Between What the Decision Maker's

question 43

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Opportunity loss is the difference between what the decision maker's payoff for an act is and what the payoff would have been had the best decision been made.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion indicating how far individual numbers are from the mean.

Chi-squared Distribution

A statistical tool used to compare observed data with data we would expect to obtain according to a specific hypothesis.

Sample

A subset of individuals or units from a larger population used to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

Population

The entire pool from which a sample is drawn for statistical analysis. It can include people, objects, or events depending on the study.