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  • Multi-factor information theory models and their industrial applications

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    Shirland, Larry Elwyn
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    This dissertation treats information theory and its applications to the general area of decision making. Specifically, three areas are covered; (1) information theory applied to Bayesian analysis, (2) estimation using multi-factor information channel models, and (3) information theory applied to Markov chain analysis. A major portion of this dissertation concerns...
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    Dissertation
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my sincere thanks to Dr. Michael S. Inoue for his advice and guidance in the

  • An application of one-factor and two-factor information channel models to marketing research problems

    Creator:
    Shirland, Larry Elwyn
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    This thesis presents an introduction to Marketing Research concepts, relates Operations Research to Marketing Research and discusses the limitations of each. An Information Theory approach based on Shannon's fundamental theorems and extended by Kunisawa is applied to one-factor and two-factor marketing problems. The objective of one-factor information channel models is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    wish to express my sincere thanks to Dr, Michael S. Inoue for his advice and guidance in the