TABLE 19-5 The Following Payoff Table Shows Profits Associated with a Set

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TABLE 19-5
The following payoff table shows profits associated with a set of 2 alternatives under 3 possible events.
-Referring to Table 19-5, what is the optimal action using EMV?

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Definitions:

Discrete Probability Distribution

A statistical function that describes the likelihood of each possible outcome of a discrete random variable occurring.

Mean

The average of a set of values, calculated by summing all the values and dividing by the number of values.

Discrete Random Variable

A random variable that has countable outcomes, such as the number of heads in a series of coin flips.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.