Majority vote of even and odd experts in a polychotomous choice situation

Theory and Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-36

  Lam, Louisa ^a   Suen, Ching Y ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Condorcet Jury theorem; Decision making; Majority vote; Polychotomous choice

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

CHOICE; MAJORITY RULE; MULTIPLE DECISION; SOCIAL DECISION; VOTING;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0030356378     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00134114     Document Type: Article

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