Additive Representations of Preferences: A New Foundation of Decision Analysis

1988 Medical Entomology and Zoology 341 citations

Abstract

0. Elementary Definitions.- I. From Choice Functions to Binary Relations.- II. Cartesian Product Structure.- III. Additive Representations.- IV. Continuous Subjective Expected Utility.- V. Continuous Subjective Expected Utility for Arbitrary State Spaces.- VI. Subjective Expected Utility with Nonadditive Probabilities.- VII. Concavity on Mixture Spaces and Risk Aversion.- A1. Generalizations of midpoint convexity.- A2. Classical representations of seu-maximization.- A3. Further remarks.- Reference-Footnotes.- Reference-footnotes to Chapter I.- Reference-footnotes to Chapter II.- Reference-footnotes to Chapter III.- Reference-footnotes to Chapter IV.- Reference-footnotes to Chapter V.- Reference-footnotes to Chapter VI.- Reference-footnotes to Chapter VII.- Reference-footnotes to the Appendix.- References.- Author Index.- Notation Index.

Keywords

Mathematical economicsNotationCartesian productIndex (typography)MathematicsCalculus (dental)Computer scienceCombinatoricsArithmetic

Related Publications

Publication Info

Year
1988
Type
book
Citations
341
Access
Closed

External Links

Citation Metrics

341
OpenAlex

Cite This

Peter P. Wakker (1988). Additive Representations of Preferences: A New Foundation of Decision Analysis. Medical Entomology and Zoology .