Violations of conjoint independence in binary choices: The equate-to-differentiate interpretation

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-79

  Li, Shu ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Binary choice; Conjoint independence; Decision analysis

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

BINARY CHOICES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0037411008     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00367-3     Document Type: Article

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