Entropy methods for joint distributions in decision analysis

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 146-159

  Abbas, Ali E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Eliciting probability distributions; Maximum entropy; Probabilistic dependence; Project evaluation selection

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ELICITING PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; PROBABILITY ASSESSMENTS; PROBABILITY DEPENDENCE; PROJECT EVALUATION;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 31744437042     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2005.861803     Document Type: Article

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