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Economics of Saving Lives

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08-12-2015 2:08 PM

You folks may want to acquaint yourselves with linear programming, if you haven't heard about it before:
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a method to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a mathematical model whose requirements are represented by linear relationships. Linear programming is a special case of mathematical programming (mathematical optimization).
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Linear programming - Wikipedia
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I have also worked with non-linear programming (actually quadratic programming), which deals with more complex relationships:
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Nonlinear programming - Wikipedia
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