Bayesian environmental policy decisions two case studies

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1056-1066

  Wolfson, Lara J ^a   Kadane, Joseph B ^b   Small, Mitchell J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Decision theory; Elicitation; Environmental; Prior distributions; Remediation; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACH; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION;

EID: 0030428940     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269590     Document Type: Article

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