UTILITY THEORY FOR DECISION MAKING

Abstract

The book presents a concise yet mathematically complete treatment of modern utility theories that covers nonprobabilistic preference theory, the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected-utility theory and its extensions, and the joint axiomatization of utility and subjective probability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0708563

Entities

People

  • Peter C. Fishburn

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algebra
  • Boolean Algebra
  • Convex Sets
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematics
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Psychology
  • Random Variables
  • Real Numbers
  • Sequences
  • Set Theory
  • Statistics
  • Theorems
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.