## Abstract This paper relates normative expectedβutility decision making to targetβbased decision making, and introduces a new quantity, the aspiration equivalent. We show that using the aspiration equivalent as a target provides a new method for choosing between lotteries that is consistent with
Diagnosis and decision making in normative reasoning
β Scribed by Leendert W. N. Torre; Yao-Hua Tan
- Book ID
- 110262836
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-8463
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