Practical building of subjective covariance structures for large complicated systems

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 553-573

  Farrow, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes linear methods; Covariance; Elicitation; Uncertainty factors; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348217846     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0039-0526.2003.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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