Combining expert judgment by hierarchical modeling: An application to physician staffing

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-161

  Lipscomb, Joseph ^a   Parmigiani, Giovanni ^a   Hasselblad, Vie ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian Inference; Health Workforce Requirements; Hierarchical Models; Opinion Pooling

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORK-REST SCHEDULES;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; HIERARCHICAL MODELS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0031997028     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.2.149     Document Type: Article

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