A tutorial on evaluating expected returns from research for fishery management using bayes' theorem

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 185-216

  McDonald, A David ^a   Smith, Anthony D M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Expected returns from research; Risk and uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000839795     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.1997.tb00106.x     Document Type: Article

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