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On the utility of gambling: Extending the approach of Meginiss (1976)

Marley Anthony; Luce R; Ng C (Birkhauser, 2008)

J. R. Meginniss modified expected utility to accommodate a concept of the utility of gambling that led to a representation composed of a utility expectation term plus an entropy of degree ? term. He imposed several apparently ...
Probabilistic Models of Set-Dependent and Attribute-Level Best-Worst Choice

Marley Anthony; Louviere Jordan; Flynn Terry (Academic Press, 2008)

We characterize a class of probabilistic choice models where the choice probabilities depend on two scales, one with a value for each available option and the other with a value for the set of available options. Then, we ...
Some probabilistic models of best, worst, and best/worst choices

Louviere Jordan; Marley Anthony (American Mosquito Control Association, 2001)

Over the past decade or so, a choice design in which a person is asked to select both the best and the worst option in an available set of options has been gaining favor over more traditional designs, such as where the ...
Utility of gambling under p(olynomial)-additive joint receipt and segregation or duplex decomposition

Marley Anthony; T Ng; Luce R (Elsevier, 2009)

This article continues our exploration of the utility of gambling, but here under the assumption of a non-additive but p(olynomial)-additive representation of joint receipt. That assumption causes the utility of gambling ...

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