Eliciting Gaussian process priors for complex computer codes

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-97

  Oakley, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer experiment; Deterministic computer model; Expert elicitation; Gaussian process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039484815     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00300     Document Type: Article

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