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Temporal Utilities

The utility matrix may be a tensor over time. In this case the effective utility matrix is the temporal average.

If there are p time intervals then


\begin{displaymath}U_{ij} = \sum_{q=1}^{p} (1/p)(U_{ijq}) \end{displaymath}



Ronald LeRoi Burback
1998-12-14