Uncertainty in expert predictions of the ecological consequences of forest plans

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-14

  Alho, Juha M ^a   Kangas, Jyrki ^a   Kolehmainen, Osmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Decision theory; Expert judgment; Prediction; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030535418     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986218     Document Type: Article

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