Probability judgments for continuous quantities: Linear combinations and calibration

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 597-604

  Hora, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Expert judgment; Linear opinion pools; Probability elicitation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EXPERT JUDGMENT; LINEAR COMBINATION; LINEAR OPINION POOLS; PROBABILITY ELICITATION;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942559303     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0205     Document Type: Article

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