On the treatment of uncertainties and probabilities in engineering decision analysis

Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 243-248

  Faber, Michael Havbro ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN DECISION THEORY; ENGINEERING DECISION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTIES;

DECISION THEORY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM;

EID: 25444467439     PISSN: 08927219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1951776     Document Type: Article

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