Analyzing uncertainties in experts' opinions of forest plan performance

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 521-528

  Alho, Juha M ^a   Kangas, Jyrki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

AHP; Bayes; Decision analysis; Planning; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030685749     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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