Maximum entropy utility

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-290

  Abbas, All E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis: applications; Utility preference: estimation, multiattribute

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM ENTROPY FORMULATION; MINIMUM CROSS ENTROPY UTILITY; UTILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; UTILITY/PREFERENCE: ESTIMATION, MULTIATTRIBUTE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION THEORY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 33645566314     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1040.0204     Document Type: Article

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