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ANNALS OF STATISTICS
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 2430-2448Publisher
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000740
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axioms of decision theory; Bayesian robustness; state-dependent utility; coherence; partial order; imprecise probabilities and utilities
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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.
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