We analyze the medical decision-making process, first from the perspective of a patient and then from the perspective of a health care provider. Using a decision-tree, we describe the different actions a mother can take to treat her daughter, who she suspects has otitis media — an ear...

We employ a stochastic dynamic programming approach to study decision making by an individual wishing to have an arranged marriage. First, we show that this individual never opts out of a voluntarily agreed upon marriage. Second, we demonstrate that our marrying individual uses a reservation...

In contemporary times, Batabyal (1999) has demonstrated that when the decision to get married in an arranged marriage is studied in a dynamic and probabilistic setting, it is possible that a marrying individual will never get married. This outcome arises because the marrying individual in...

The Arrow-Fisher-Henry (AFH) analysis of land development under uncertainty has been conducted in a two period model. In contemporary times, Capozza and Helsley (1990), Batabyal (1996, 1997, 2000), and others have analyzed the question of land development under uncertainty in a multi-period...

This book has one central objective and that is to demonstrate how the theory of stochastic processes and the techniques of stochastic modeling can be used to effectively model arranged marriage settings, and to use these stochastic models of arranged marriages to explain various aspects of the...

This book has one central objective and that is to demonstrate how the theory of stochastic processes and the techniques of stochastic modeling can be used to effectively model arranged marriage settings, and to use these stochastic models of arranged marriages to explain various aspects of the...

The notion of a reservation quality or utility is a key feature of Batabyal's (2003a) recent analysis of decision making in arranged marriages. In this model, the magnitude of the reservation utility has a non-trivial impact on the decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so,...

The Arrow-Fisher-Henry (AFH) analysis of land development under uncertainty has been conducted in a 2 period setting. In recent times, Capozza and Helsley (1990), Batabyal (1996, 1997, 2000), and other researchers have studied the issue of land development under uncertainty in a many time...