Decision Analysis

Decision Analysis

(You must complete this assignment in Excel and submit that Excel file)

The director of career advising at Orange Community College wants to use decision analysis to provide information to help students decide which 2-year degree
program they should pursue. The director has set up the following payoff table for six of the most popular and successful degree programs at OCC that shows the
estimated 5-year gross income ($) from each degree for four future economic conditions:

Degree ProgramEconomic Conditions
RecessionAverageGoodRobust
Graphic Design145,000175,000220,000260,000
Nursing150,000180,000205,000215,000
Real Estate115,000165,000220,000320,000
Medical Tech130,000180,000210,000280,000
Culinary Tech115,000145,000235,000305,000
Computer IT125,000150,000190,000250,000
Probability0.20.40.30.1

Determine the best degree program in terms of projected income, using the following decision criteria:

a. Maximax

b. Maximin

c. Equal likelihood

d. Hurwicz (alpha = .6)

e. Minimax regret

f. EOL (expected opportunity loss)

g. The director of career advising at Orange Community College has paid a small fee to a local investment firm to indicate a probability for each future
economic condition over the next 5 years, which is shown in the last row of the above table. Using expected value determine the best degree program in terms of
projected income.

h. Determine the EVPI of this problem.

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