A numerical scale for partially ordered utilities.

Norman Crolee Dalkey

ResearchPublished 1949

An extension of a numerical scale of von Neumann and Morgenstern to a wide class of partially ordered utilities. By this extension a numerical scale may be determined up to a linear transformation and may extend the partial order to a complete order.

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  • Year: 1949
  • Pages: 21
  • Document Number: RM-296

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Dalkey, Norman Crolee, A numerical scale for partially ordered utilities. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1949. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM296.html.
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