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Management Science Vol. 32 No. 3 1986

Calibration and the Aggregation of Probabilities

Robert T. Clemen

College of Business Administration, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1208

Abstract

In order to avoid the task of assessing a complicated likelihood function, Morris uses an axiomatic approach to develop a multiplicative rule for aggregating a decision maker's and an expert's probabilities. An essential shortcoming of the multiplicative rule is that it does not allow the decision maker to model his beliefs about the dependence between his assessment and the expert's. The root of the problem lies in the fact that the decision maker must calibrate the expert's information. When the calibration is done properly, the decision maker is forced to tackle the task which Morris proposes to avoid.

DOI
10.1287/mnsc.32.3.312
Volume
32
Issue
3
Pages
312-314
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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