Note—Does Rolling Back Decision Trees Really Require the Independence Axiom?

In a recent article, LaValle and Wapman argue that the recursion analysis of decision trees in extensive form requires the Herstein-Milnor independence axiom. I claim that most extensive form analyses are perfectly proper in the absence of independence, but that the transformation from extensive to normal form is impermissible.

• 저널Management Science · 33(6) · 807–809
• 토픽Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference · Artificial Intelligence
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.33.6.807
• 저자Gordon B. Hazen