The shape of incomplete preferences

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2430-2448

  Nau, Robert ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axioms of decision theory; Bayesian robustness; Coherence; Imprecise probabilities and utilities; Partial order; State dependent utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847376426     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000740     Document Type: Article

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