Distribution of expected utility in decision trees

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 387-407

  Danielson, Mats ^a   Ekenberg, Love ^a,b   Larsson, Aron ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Decision evaluation; Second order probabilities; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

DECISION EVALUATION; SECOND-ORDER PROBABILITIES; UTILITY THEORY;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 34648822919     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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