Using expert judgment to model initial attack fire crew effectiveness

Forest Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 539-549

  Hirsch, Kelvin G ^a   Corey, Paul N ^b   Martell, David L ^c  

^a NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expert opinion; Forest fire suppression modeling; Random coefficient regression modeling; Repeated measures; Response curves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031742604     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestscience/44.4.539     Document Type: Article

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