Utility of gambling when events are valued : an application of inset entropy
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2009
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Ng, C.
Duncan, L.R.
Marley, A.A.J.
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Theory and Decision, 2009; 67(1):23-63
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The present theory leads to a set of subjective weights such that the utility of an uncertain alternative (gamble) is partitioned into three terms involving those weights-a conventional subjectively weighted utility function over pure consequences, a subjectively weighted value function over events, and a subjectively weighted function of the subjective weights. Under several assumptions, this becomes one of several standard utility representations, plus a weighted value function over events, plus an entropy term of the weights. In the finitely additive case, the latter is the Shannon entropy; in all other cases it is entropy of degree not 1. The primary mathematical tool is the theory of inset entropy.
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Copyright 2007 Springer