Sensitivity analysis on a chance node with more than two branches

• Published in: Medical decision making Vol. 19; no. 4; p. 499
• Main Authors: Sendi, P P, Clemen, R T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.1999
• Subjects: Decision Support Techniques; Decision Trees; HIV Infections - classification; Humans; Methods; Probability; Sensitivity and Specificity

Sensitivity analysis is an essential part of decision analysis. The literature on medical decision analysis suggests the use of two-branch chance nodes in decision trees to avoid logical inconsistencies during sensitivity analysis. The authors show that the two-branch decomposition is not appropriat...