Notes on the weighting biases in value trees

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-150

  Pöyhönen, Mari ^a   Hämäläinen, Raimo P ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Multiattribute values; Splitting bias; Value trees; Weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008604837     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0771(199806)11:2<139::aid-bdm293>3.0.co;2-m     Document Type: Article

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