Multicriterion Decision Merging: Competitive Development of an Aboriginal Whaling Management Procedure

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1003-1014

  Givens, Geof H ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes rule; Bayesian decision theory; Wildlife population management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442278087     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473853     Document Type: Article

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