An exploratory project expert system for eliciting correlation coefficient and sequential updating of duration estimation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 553-560

  Cho, Sungbin ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Elicitation of correlation coefficient; Linear Bayesian approach; Project expert system; Sequential updating of duration estimation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ELICITATION OF CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LINEAR BAYESIAN APPROACH; PROJECT EXPERT SYSTEM; SEQUENTIAL UPDATING OF DURATION ESTIMATION;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33144490490     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.07.024     Document Type: Article

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