caa a22 4500 465774822 CHVBK 20180323111938.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02204841 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02204841 Saari Donald Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, 60206-2730, Evanston, IL, USA aut Consistency of decision processes [Elektronische Daten] [Donald Saari] If a statistical or a voting decision procedure is used by several subpopulations and if each reaches an identical conclusion, then one might expect this conclusion to be the outcome for the full group. It is shown that this property fails to hold for large classes of decision procedures. The geometric reasons why the consistency does not hold are described. A general theorem is given to characterize the procedures that satisfy this property of "weak consistency”. J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company, 1990 Annals of Operations Research Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers 23/1(1990-12-01), 103-137 0254-5330 23:1<103 1990 23 10479 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02204841 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02204841 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Saari Donald Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, 60206-2730, Evanston, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Annals of Operations Research Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers 23/1(1990-12-01), 103-137 0254-5330 23:1<103 1990 23 10479 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer