The expected utility of a decision is the average utility of all possible outcomes consequent upon that decision, each one weighted by its probability under the decision.
God's actions in history are better understood in the analogy of artistic or aesthetic preferences than in analogies of logical perfection (pace Leibniz) and the moral utility of a "best possible world".
The IPS is the putative human homologue of LIP [30], an area in monkey parietal cortex that has previously been demonstrated to process elements of expected utility [28], [31] and has been proposed to contain a map of the expected utility of all possible actions [32].
Fewer items are included in a preference based measure as, otherwise, it would require an unmanageable number of valuations in order to determine the utility of all possible health states.
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Finally, strategies are compared by calculating the weighted sum of the utilities of all possible outcomes [ 27].
In Britain, seven regional electricity companies (or RECs) that distribute electricity have recently been taken over by American firms, for a total of some £9 billion ($15 billion).This week it emerged that PacifiCorp, an American utility, is discussing a possible takeover of Energy Group, a British electricity and coal company, for around £3.6 billion.
Using this value set, the EQ-5D-5L utindex index has a possible range of −0.111 to 1 [ 18].
To capture these facts, we introduce a function, \ u\), which represents the utility of various possible outcomes.
The first approach, which is based on the choice in which the respondent is indifferent between the two alternatives, yields utilities with a possible range of 0 to −∞.
