How to Use Multiattribute Utility Measurement for Social Decisionmaking

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1977, Pages 326-340

  Edwards, Ward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DECISION THEORY AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0017495672     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1977.4309720     Document Type: Article

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