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Suppose you wish to describe how some particular individual takes decisions under risk1. This could be for several reasons, most obviously: because you wished to predict how this individual might behave in some future decision problem; or because the individual wished to know whether or not the decision rule that he or she was implicitly using was a sensible rule in some sense. How might you set about this task?
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Hey, J.D. (1999). Estimating (Risk) Preference Functionals Using Experimental Methods. In: Luini, L. (eds) Uncertain Decisions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5083-9_5
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