| Article ID: | iaor1989292 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Start Page Number: | 489 |
| End Page Number: | 497 |
| Publication Date: | May 1989 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Fischer Gregory W. |
The paper briefly discusses several fundamental problems that confront attempts to develop a prescriptive science of decision and inference. It also describes several especially promising lines of research that might contribute to prescriptive decision science.