Copula models for aggregating expert opinions

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 444-457

  Jouini, Mohamed N ^a   Clemen, Robert T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN MODEL; COPULA MODELS; EXPERT INFORMATION; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0030134894     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.3.444     Document Type: Article

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