Quantifying exploration sufficiency while accommodating judgment

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 133-153

  Graettinger, Andrew J ^a   Dowding, Charles H ^b  

^a The University of Alabama   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Finite elements; Reliability analysis; Subsurface exploration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001441752     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007579116990     Document Type: Article

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