Subjective expected lexicographic utility: Axioms and assessment

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 80, Issue , 1998, Pages 183-206

  Fishburn, Peter C ^a   La Valle, Irving H ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexicographic order; Matrix probabilities; Subjective expected utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042222857     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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