Weighted sets of probabilities and minimax weighted expected regret: a new approach for representing uncertainty and making decisions. (English) Zbl 1378.91064
Summary: We consider a setting where a decision maker’s uncertainty is represented by a set of probability measures, rather than a single measure. Measure-by-measure updating of such a set of measures upon acquiring new information is well known to suffer from problems. To deal with these problems, we propose using weighted sets of probabilities: a representation where each measure is associated with a weight, which denotes its significance. We describe a natural approach to updating in such a situation and a natural approach to determining the weights. We then show how this representation can be used in decision making, by modifying a standard approach to decision making – minimizing expected regret – to obtain minimax weighted expected regret (MWER). We provide an axiomatization that characterizes preferences induced by MWER both in the static and dynamic case.
MSC:
| 91B06 | Decision theory |
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