Representability of ordinal relations on a set of conditional events

Theory and Decision

Volumn 60, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 137-174

  Coletti, Giulianella ^b   Vantaggi, Barbara ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coherent conditional probabilities; Comparative coherent conditional probability; Comparative conditional degree of belief; Conditional capacities; Representability

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

COHERENT CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; COMPARATIVE COHERENT CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; COMPARATIVE CONDITIONAL DEGREE OF BELIEF; CONDITIONAL CAPACITIES; REPRESENTABILITY;

SET THEORY;

EID: 33646431464     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-005-4570-4     Document Type: Article

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