Accounting for expert-to-expert variability: A potential source of bias in performance assessments of high-level radioactive waste repositories

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 751-762

  Zio, E ^a,b   Apostolakis, G E ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EXPERT JUDGEMENT;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

EID: 0031188132     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4549(96)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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