Condorcet's Jury Theorem and the reliability of majority voting

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 229-238

  Berg, Sven ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Beta binomial distributions; Competence; Correlated binomial; Dependent voting; Group decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344462122     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02400945     Document Type: Article

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