tool to calculate optimal sample size and optimal sample location based on user goals, risk tolerance, and variability in …

depend on robustness properties of the solution concepts adopted. Chapter 1 discusses recent results in this research area … attention in the literature (namely, the distinction between knowledge and certainty), raising novel questions of robustness …

the policy that maximizes robustness to unstructured uncertainty. …

robust. But robustness, in the sense of assurance against extreme outcomes, ordinarily is not the only desideratum in … the risk of a successful attack by inspecting more vessels, we show that robustness against the failure to guarantee a … minimum level of expected utility might not be monotonic. Robustness modeling based on expected utility and incorporating …

reveal about design robustness is demonstrated, and practical limitations to its use are revealed. Second, a new mathematical … technique is presented that expands capabilities for analyzing robustness to multiple info-gap uncertainties simultaneously. The …

essential. The robustness of such inferences is dependent on sample size. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of …