Threshold setting and the cycling of a decision threshold

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-26

  Weaver, Elise A ^a   Richardson, George ^b  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLICY MAKING; THRESHOLD;

EID: 33646514405     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: 10991727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.327     Document Type: Article

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