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Allocation, Lehrer models, and the consensus of probabilities

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This work was conceived in part while the author was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (BNS 76-22943 A 02), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the University of Tennessee.

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Wagner, C. Allocation, Lehrer models, and the consensus of probabilities. Theor Decis 14, 207–220 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133978

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