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Determining statistical dominance by linear programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Ross G. Drynan
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia.
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Abstract

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This note generalises the necessary and sufficient conditions for one act to be dominated by another when the two acts available to the decision maker have outcomes contingent on discrete states of nature whose probabilities of occurrence are known only to the extent of linear partial information. The generalisation relates to the dominance of an act by a set of acts. The presentation is in terms of general vector dominance, of which statistical dominance is only a particular case.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1988

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