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- Title
A new integral for capacities.
- Authors
Lehrer, Ehud
- Abstract
A new integral for capacities is introduced and characterized. It differs from the Choquet integral on non-convex capacities. The main feature of the new integral is concavity, which might be interpreted as uncertainty aversion. The integral is extended to fuzzy capacities, which assign subjective expected values to random variables (e.g., portfolios) and may assign subjective probability only to a partial set of events. An equivalence between the minimum over sets of additive capacities (not necessarily probability distributions) and the integral w.r.t. fuzzy capacities is demonstrated. The extension to fuzzy capacities enables one to calculate the integral also in cases where the information available is limited to a few events.
- Subjects
INTEGRALS; FUZZY integrals; FUZZY measure theory; FUZZY mathematics; MEASURE theory; PROBABILITY theory
- Publication
Economic Theory, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 1, p157
- ISSN
0938-2259
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00199-007-0302-z