The likelihood method for decision under uncertainty

Theory and Decision

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-76

  Abdellaoui, Mohammed ^a   Wakker, Peter P ^b  

^a Maison de la Recherche   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Belief measurement; Choquet expected utility; Likelihood method; Probabilistic sophistication; Rank dependence; Subjective expected utility

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

AMBIGUITY; BELIEF MEASUREMENT; CHOQUET EXPECTED UTILITY; LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILISTIC SOPHISTICATION; RANK DEPENDENCE; SUBJECTIVE EXPECTED UTILITY;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 26444444053     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-005-8320-4     Document Type: Article

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