A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Reaching a Consensus Using DeGroot's Method

DOI10.2307/2287844zbMath0455.60004MaRDI QIDQ3903757

Roger L. Berger

Publication date: 1981

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2287844

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain; stochastic matrix; opinion pool; subjective probability distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J10: Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces)

15B51: Stochastic matrices

60A05: Axioms; other general questions in probability

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