Increasing increment generalizations of rank-dependent theories

Theory and Decision

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 87-146

  Luce, R Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributivity; Generalized RDU; Increasing increments; Segregation; Unitary stimuli

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FUNCTIONS; MAPPING;

DISTRIBUTIVITY; GENERALIZED RDU; INCREASING INCREMENTS; RANK-DEPENDENT UTILITY (RDU); SEGREGATION; UNITARY STIMULI;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 2542464116     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:THEO.0000024427.27715.0a     Document Type: Article

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