The phrase "a decision is associated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the relationship between a decision and a particular outcome, factor, or context.
Example: "In this study, a decision is associated with the level of risk involved in the investment."
Alternatives: "a decision is linked" or "a decision is connected".
Finally, a panel of three practicing general practitioners, working in different practices, was asked to fill out a questionnaire to decide whether a certain decision is associated with a higher or a lower time investment.
More generally, every decision is associated with a degree of confidence, and assessments of confidence can be used to guide current and future decisions (see Kepecs and Mainen (2012) for a review).
All approaches are valid and each methodological decision is associated with strengths and limitations.
The process of making this decision is associated with increased anxiety and stress for the pregnant woman and her partner.
In these latter two examples there is no straightforward way to compare the outcomes because each decision is associated with very different benefits.
Thus, pro and con factors used to present a rationalized final decision were associated with subjective factors.
Instead, the whole brain analysis showed an activation increase in the right inferior frontal gyrus during the actual decision, and neither the pre-decision phase, nor the actual decision was associated with an activation increase in the left IFG in this sample.
Using meta-analytic connectivity modeling, we found that the preparatory phase of the decision was associated with activity in a right-posterior portion of the DLFC featuring co-activations in the left-inferior frontal cortex.
By contrast, the anterior portion of the DLFC that became activated during the actual decision was associated with stronger co-activations in two DLFC areas framing the DLFC region co-activated in relation to the posterior DLFC seed region.
An earlier career decision was associated with; undergraduate radiology projects (-0.72 years, p = 0.018), career advice (-0.63 years, p = 0.009) and regular attendance at radiology meetings (-0.65 years, p = 0.014).
