Bayesian estimation in forest surveys when samples or prior information are fuzzy

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-290

  Gertner, G Z ^a,b   Zhu, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forestry; Fuzzy set; Likelihood of a fuzzy sample; Membership function; Natural resources; Position and shape parameter; Posterior mean; Proportion parameter; Quadratic loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012171227     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0114(95)00088-7     Document Type: Article

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