The phrase "a decision was defined" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of clarifying or establishing the specifics of a decision that has been made.
Example: "After much deliberation, a decision was defined regarding the project's direction, ensuring everyone was on the same page."
Alternatives: "a decision was established" or "a decision was clarified."
Thus, with regard to oviposition behavior, a decision is defined as the selection between one of two mutually exclusive responses: (1) avoid the substrate and hold eggs, or (2) choose the substrate in order to lay eggs.
A correct decision was defined to be the decision that results in the greatest expected value (Figure 4B). Figure 3A shows that participants made significantly more mistakes against trustworthy opponents (Blue; Mean = −1.76%, SE = .55%) than neutral (Green; Mean = .74%, SE = .40%) and untrustworthy opponents (Red; Mean = 1.02%, SE = .70%).
An 'appropriate referral decision' was defined as a provider's referral decision which was consistent with the recommendations in the Guidebook, given that there has been a correct diagnosis.
The latency of the nogo decision was defined as the first time point at which the difference curve exceeded 0.5 µV.
Conversely, disagreement in treatment decision was defined to occur when tumor response assessment by CT and FDG-PET/CT would have resulted in different treatment decisions.
Time to decision was defined as the time from ECG recording to the time when the cardiologist on call decided on primary PCI.
Given the economic objective of maximizing benefits given scarce resources, the optimal decision was defined as the catheter associated with the highest average monetary net benefit; choosing anything else would incur an opportunity cost.
5In Compton and Pollak (2007), the migration decision is defined in terms of a three equation latent dependent variable model (rather than the two equation model presented here), the third equation estimates the probability of the coupling continuing (not divorcing).
