Abstract
Decision Maker is an advanced computer program for decision tree analysis, especially as applied to medical problems. Written in Turbo PASCAL for the IBM PC, it provides flexible tree structure and multiple types of analyses. In this paper the IBM version 5.3 is described in detail, and work in progress on a graphical, Apple Macintosh version is presented.
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