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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"opinion aggregation"”.
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Market and strategic analysis of opinion aggregators
… studies an emerging web phenomenon - online opinion aggregator. The thesis first defines what an opinion aggregator is and then applies a holistic framework to analyze the opinion aggregator to understand its key characteristics. The research then zooms in on one of the most popular opinion …
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Learning from opinions
… making based on subjective evaluations, or opinions, are not only common aspects of human learning but are fundamental engineering challenges due to the hidden uncertainty. The objective of this work is to establish fundamentals of learning from opinions by addressing key problems that rely …
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Essays in Economic Theory
… that accounts for heuristics and biases in opinion aggregation. The updating rules are represented by nonlinear opinion aggregators from which we extract two extreme networks capturing strong and weak links. We provide graph-theoretic conditions on these networks that characterize opinions’ …
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Extracting the Wisdom of Crowds From Crowdsourcing Platforms
… area, one that is used to aggregate judgments, opinions, or predictions from a large group of individuals for improved decision making. However, existing literature mostly focuses on eliciting the wisdom of crowds in an offline context—without tapping into the vast amount of data available on …