The mathematical expressions that appear (tiled) in the background of this 'blog; are from a paper on which I have been working (off-and-on) over a long time. I'm far from perfectly happy with the present state of the paper, but I've finally put-together something like a complete draft of it, in PDF, at

There are some temporary issues with presentation of this draft:

• The layout needs to be fixed, by the insertion of page breaks, so that things such as section headings are pushed to a next page, rather than orphaned.
• The OpenOffice formula editor does not support use of the relational symbols ≻, ≽, ≿, or ⪰. (For now, I am representing strict preference with pref and weak preference with wpref; later, I will output the paper as LAΤΕΧ and then tweak the formulæ to give me ≻ for strict preference and one of the other three for weak preference.)

At this point, I welcome comments, from experts and from non-experts, both on the underlying content and on how I have expressed myself.

Up-Date (2009:04/08): Professor Gamst of UCSD caught an error in what had been formula (10). It was easily patched. I have up-dated the on-line version of the paper.

Tags: decision theory, papers, writing

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