A SimpleTrade-off Condition for Additive Multiattribute Utility
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چکیده
We show that only two simple trade-off judgments are sufficient to determine whether the multiplicative multiattribute model assumes its additive form, regardless of the number of attributes in the model. This additivity condition offers a useful alternative to the test based on multiattribute lotteries commonly presented in textbooks. It J. Multi-Crit. Deck Anal. 6: 248-252 (1997) No. of Figures: 1. No. of Tables: 0. No. of References: 18.
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