Recursive utility for stochastic trees

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 788-809

  Hazen, Gordon B ^a   Pellissier, James M ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

RECURSIVE UTILITY; STOCHASTIC TREES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0030233326     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.5.788     Document Type: Article

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