Orders and Scales

Anatol Rapoport

Chapter 1 in Decision Theory and Decision Behaviour, 1998, pp 10-25 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A fundamental concept underlying theories of preferences (an integral part of decision theory) is that of a binary relation on a set of elements.

Keywords: Utility Function; Binary Relation; Decision Theory; Ordinal Scale; Ratio Scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230377769_2

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