A role for sensitivity analysis in presenting the results from MCDA studies to decision makers

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 139-145

  Saltelli, A ^a   Tarantola, S ^a   Chan, K ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multi criteria decision making; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343454090     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1360(199905)8:3<139::AID-MCDA239>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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