Accession Number : AD0708563

Title :   UTILITY THEORY FOR DECISION MAKING

Descriptive Note : Final rept.

Corporate Author : RESEARCH ANALYSIS CORP MCLEAN VA

Personal Author(s) : Fishburn, Peter C.

PDF Url : AD0708563

Report Date : JUN 1970

Pagination or Media Count : 246

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.

Descriptors :   *DECISION THEORY, *GAME THEORY, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, DECISION MAKING, THEOREMS, MEASURE THEORY, CONVEX SETS, SET THEORY, PROBABILITY.

Subject Categories : Operations Research

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE