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U14 Decision & game theory
Years 1 to 3 pathU: Years 1 to 3 electivesplannedabout 120 h (planning estimate)
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Named in: Years 1 to 3 pathway
Why this course
Formal decisions under uncertainty and games.
Prerequisites
Concept-level units
Units follow the syllabus order, as a recommended sequence rather than a gate.
- Actions and states
- Loss and risk
- Bayes rules
- Minimax reasoning
- Utility axioms
- Games and equilibria
Assessable outcome
Formulate decisions under uncertainty and compare rules using explicit losses.
Assessment design
- topic exercises
- mixed problem sets
- unseen proof or derivation problems
- cumulative examination
cumulative; uses spaced retrieval
Resources
Every title here is candidate, unverified unless marked verified. Titles were suggested while planning. Nobody has checked that they exist, what they cost or how they are licensed.
- Peterson · An Introduction to Decision Theory
- Osborne for games
Content record
- Version
- 0.0.0
- Review
- no review of any kind
- Provenance
- catalogue imported from the owner brief of 29 Oct 2026; no teaching content authored
- Known issues
- none recorded
- Type
- course
Bridges and laboratories
- Laboratory: Priors, losses, risk, and decision thresholds planned State the action/state/loss model explicitly
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