Accession Number:
ADA115048
Title:
Decompositions of Multiattribute Utility Functions Based on Convex Dependence.
Descriptive Note:
Working paper,
Corporate Author:
CALIFORNIA UNIV DAVIS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ADMINISTRATION
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Report Date:
1982-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
34.0
Abstract:
This paper describes a method of assessing multiattribute utility functions. Introduced is the concept of convex dependence, which considers the change of shapes of conditional utility functions. Then, theorems which show how to decompose multiattribute utility functions using convex dependence are established. The convex decompositionincludes as special cases Keeneys additivemultiplicative decompositions, Fishburns bilateral decomposition, and Bells decomposition under the interpolation independence. Moreover, the convex decomposition is an exact grid model which was axiomatized by Fishburn and Farquhar.
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Subject Categories:
- Statistics and Probability