An Overview, Integration, and Evaluation of Utility Theory for Decision Analysis

Abstract

This report is a survey of the measurement theoretic literature on utility models and assessment. Its purpose is to communicate the concepts of measurement theory to decision analysts who may benefit from the application of measurement theoretic models and methods when solving real world evaluation problems. The report is, first, an inventory and dictionary that classifies, translates, and integrates existing measurement theories; and second, and evaluation of the usefulness of measurement theory as a tool for solving complex decision problems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA021497

Entities

People

  • Detlof Von Winterfelt

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Commerce
  • Engineering
  • Geography
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Judgment
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

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