Which of the following is a decision-making approach used when the decision maker is optimistic about the future events and their outcomes, identifies the maximum payoff associated with each decision, and chooses the maximum of the maximum payoffs?
a. maximax criterion
b. Laplace criterion
c. maximin criterion
d. minimax regret criterion
a. maximax criterion
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