The shape of incomplete preferences
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Publication:869979
DOI10.1214/009053606000000740zbMATH Open1106.62001arXivmath/0702689OpenAlexW2093830381MaRDI QIDQ869979FDOQ869979
Authors: Robert Nau 
Publication date: 12 March 2007
Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Incomplete preferences provide the epistemic foundation for models of imprecise subjective probabilities and utilities that are used in robust Bayesian analysis and in theories of bounded rationality. This paper presents a simple axiomatization of incomplete preferences and characterizes the shape of their representing sets of probabilities and utilities. Deletion of the completeness assumption from the axiom system of Anscombe and Aumann yields preferences represented by a convex set of state-dependent expected utilities, of which at least one must be a probability/utility pair. A strengthening of the state-independence axiom is needed to obtain a representation purely in terms of a set of probability/utility pairs.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702689
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Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05)
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