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How to Make Fair Decisions?

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General Inequalities 5

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In this note we investigate fair decision functions, that is symmetric decision functions which satisfy the compromise principle and neglect odd ball opinions. The main purpose of our theory is to prove that a nonconstant decision function is fair if and only if it is a result of a generalized Gauß-type least square method.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Kossuth Lajos University, H-4010, Debrecen, Pf. 12, Hungary

    Zsolt Páles

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  1. Mathematisches Institut I, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstraße 12, D-7500, Karlsruhe 1, Germany

    Wolfgang Walter

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Páles, Z. (1987). How to Make Fair Decisions?. In: Walter, W. (eds) General Inequalities 5. International Series of Numerical Mathematics / Internationale Schriftenreihe zur Numerischen Mathematik Série internationale d’Analyse numérique, vol 80. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7192-1_36

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