Toward an improved methodology to construct and reconcile decision analytic preference judgments

Decision Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-134

  Anderson, Richard M ^a   Clemen, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral decision making; Biases; Decision analysis; Environment; Multiattribute value theory; Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878861763     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.2013.0268     Document Type: Article

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