Dealing with the expert inconsistency in probability elicitation

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 499-508

  Monti, Stefano ^a   Carenini, Giuseppe ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Bayesian belief networks; Probability elicitation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESSES; BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS; PROBABILITY ELICITATION;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 0034215459     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.868903     Document Type: Article

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