Consensus by identifying extremists

Theory and Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-301

  Hanson, Robin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian learning; Common knowledge; Consensus; Information pooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005125323     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004918905650     Document Type: Article

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