Understanding pooled subjective probability estimates

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-18

  Wallsten, Thomas S ^a   Diederich, Adele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; D89; Diagnosticity; Pooling estimates; Subjective probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037929244     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4896(00)00053-6     Document Type: Article

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