Simplicity out of complexity in environmental modelling: Occam's razor revisited

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 165-210

  Young, Peter ^a   Parkinson, Stuart ^a   Lees, Matthew ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; MODELLING METHODOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030464374     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664769624206     Document Type: Article

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