LEARNING WITH DETERMINISTIC DECISION RULES
作者:
Josef Hadar,
期刊:
Decision Sciences
(WILEY Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 1
页码: 18-28
ISSN:0011-7315
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-5915.1976.tb00654.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTWhile many problems of uncertainty are commonly analyzed by means of stochastic models, under certain circumstances this may not be an appropriate approach. The latter situation arises when the decision maker knows that the uncertain variables are not generated by a stochastic process, or when he is unwilling, or unable, to compute subjective probabilities. One of the nonstochastic approaches to uncertainty is the expectational approach in which the decision maker forms deterministic expectations about the uncertain aspects of his environment.This paper is concerned with some criteria for selecting among available expectations, or anticipations functions, and the possibility of ordering them according to these criteria. This study focuses especially on the learning criterion. The discussion brings out conceptual problems in connection with the definition of learning, as well as some technical difficulties that one encounters when attempting to compare different anticipations functions from the point of view of the learning criterion. As an illustration of the issues discussed, the paper reports on the results of some simulated decision rules. These show that decision rules in which no learning takes place, and in which some information is ignored, may perform better than more sophisticated rules.
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