Name:You may use a calculator on this quiz. You may not use a cell
phone or computer. Please read each question carefully, show your
work and give justifications for your answers. The questions are
roughly organized from shortest to longest; if you find that you are
spending a lot of time on one problem, leave it blank and move on to
the next. There are questions on both sides of this quiz paper.
P(A | B) = P(A ∩ B) / P(B)
E = EVSI / EVPI * 100
(20 points) In your own words, what is a state of nature?
(20 points) Fictional Textbook Corp. is considering releasing
their new book in hardcover format. If they do this, they predict a
20% chance of $100,000 profit, a 50% chance of $200,000 profit and a
30% chance of $500,000 profit. What is the expected value of
publishing the new book as a hardcover?
(20 points) If the probabilities of the states of nature in the
payoff table below are P(S1) = 10%, P(S2) =
60% and P(S3) = 30%, what is the expected value of perfect
information (EVPI)?
S1
S2
S3
d1
-200
300
500
d2
200
400
300
d3
300
200
-100
(20 points) Fictional Textbook Corp. is deciding what format to
publish their new textbook in. Shown below are the risk profiles for
three formats: hardcover, paperback and electronic. Which choice
would be recommended by an optomistic approach?
(20 points) On a summer day in Plymouth, there is an 80% prior
probability of sun and a 20% prior probability of rain. Each day the
weather report predicts either "favorable" (sunny) or "unfavorable"
(rainy) weather. Assuming the joint probability table shown below is
correct, what is the posterior (branch) probability of rain on a day
when the weather report is favorable?