Violation of the transitivity axiom may explain why, in empirical studies, a significant number of subjects violate GARP

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 586-592

  Diaye, Marc Arthur ^a   Urdanivia, Michal W ^b  

^a ENSAI Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de lAnalyse de lInformation   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Acyclic preferences; GARP; Variable intervals function

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549103469     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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