Eliciting beliefs

Theory and Decision

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 271-284

  Chambers, Robert ^a   Melkonyan, Tigran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximin expected utility; Choquet expected utility; Constant additive preferences; Geometric tomography; Invariant biseparable preferences; Rank dependent

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CHOQUET EXPECTED UTILITY; CONSTANT ADDITIVE PREFERENCES; GEOMETRIC TOMOGRAPHY; INVARIANT BISEPARABLE PREFERENCES; RANK-DEPENDENT;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 54949114730     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-008-9103-5     Document Type: Article

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