Modeling and measuring the effects of vagueness in decision models

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-323

  Chávez, Tom ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONJUGATE DISTRIBUTION; ELICITATION METHOD; EQUIVALENT SAMPLE SIZE; EXPECTED VALUE OF INCLUDING VAGUENESS; EXPECTED VALUE OF REDUCING VAGUENESS; INFLUENCE DIAGRAMS; PREPOSTERIOR ANALYSIS; RELATIVE INFORMATION MULTIPLE; SECOND ORDER PROBABILITY; VAGUENESS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0030150629     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.487957     Document Type: Article

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