Contributions to Policy Issues Sinha, Bikas Kumar. editor Bagchi, Srijib Bhusan. editor si 2021 eng 1 online resource (280 pages) This book contains international perspectives that unifies the themes of strategic management, decision theory, and data science. It contains thought-provoking presentations of case studies backed by adequate analysis adding significance to the discussions. Most of the decision-making models in use do take due advantage of collection and processing of relevant data using appropriate analytics oriented to provide inputs into effective decision-making. The book showcases applications in diverse fields including banking and insurance, portfolio management, inventory analysis, performance assessment of comparable economic agents, managing utilities in a health-care facility, reducing traffic snarls on highways, monitoring achievement of some of the sustainable development goals in a country or state, and similar other areas that showcase policy implications. It holds immense value for researchers as well as professionals responsible for organizational decisions. Sustaining High Economic Growth Requires a Different Strategy: An Integrated Approach for Broad-Based Knowledge Economy -- The Secretary Problem—An Update -- Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Related Assessment Tools Under Indian Perspective -- A Multi-type Branching Process Model for Epidemics with Application to COVID-19 in India -- The Mirra Distribution for Modeling Time-to-Event Data Sets -- Comparison of Local Powers of Some Exact Tests for a Common Normal Mean with Unequal Variances -- Lower Bounds for Percentiles of Pivots from a Sample Mean Standardized by S, the GMD, the MAD, or the Range in a Normal Distribution and Miscellany with Data Analysis -- Intuitionistic Fuzzy Optimization Technique to Solve a Multiobjective Vendor Selection Problem -- Testing for the Goodness of Fit for the DMRL Class of Life Distributions -- Linear Empirical Bayes Prediction of Employment Growth Rates Using the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey -- Constrained Bayesian Rules for Testing Statistical Hypotheses -- Application of Path Counting Problem and Survivability Function in Analysis of Social Systems -- Framework for Groundwater Resources Management and Sustainable Development of Groundwater in India -- A New Generalized Newsvendor Model with Random Demand and Cost Misspecification -- Analytics Approach to the Improvement of the Management of Hospitals -- A Novel Approach to Estimate the Intrinsic Dimension of fMRI Data Using Independent Component Analysis -- Data Science, Decision Theory and Strategic Management: A Tale of Disruption and Some Thoughts About What Could Come Next. Bikas Kumar Sinha, Srijib Bhusan Bagchi (editors). Includes bibliographical references. HD30.28 .S773 2021 9789811613685 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3023962 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3023962 EVLG 120830 spa