From the Editors…Remembering Ward Edwards

Abstract

Ward Edwards' contributions to behavioral decision theory and decision analysis are remembered, as are his contributions to the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS and this journal. The lead article of the issue, by Gregory, Fischhoff, and McDaniels, notes that applications of decision analysis to public-process decision making would benefit from improved linages between psychological and analytical approaches. Other contributions include Bayesian models for combining expert opinions, an empirical study of risk taking in sequential decision making, and applications to environmental management and the sport of curling.