The administrators at State University are trying to decide whether to institute mandatory drug testing for athletes. They have the same information about priors and likelihoods as in the previous...

The administrators at State University are trying to decide whether to institute mandatory drug testing for athletes. They have the same information about priors and likelihoods as in the previous example, but they now want to use a decision tree approach to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs.6

Objective To use a multistage decision framework to determine whether mandatory drug testing can be justified, given a somewhat unreliable test and a set of reasonable monetary values.