An analysis of decomposition for subjective estimation in decision analysis

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 443-453

  Andradóttir, Sigrún ^a   Bier, Vicki M ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning event selection; Hedging; Informative decompositions; Stratification; Subjective probability assessment

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

CONDITIONING EVENT SELECTION; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY ASSESSMENT;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0032123073     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.686705     Document Type: Article

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