Alternatives to incorporate uncertainty and risk attitude in multicriteria evaluation of forest plans

Forest Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 304-312

  Leskinen, Pekka ^a   Viitanen, Jari ^a   Kangas, Annika ^b   Kangas, Jyrki ^c  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UPM Forest   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest planning; Multicriteria decision analysis; Regression; Statistical inference; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FOREST INVENTORY; MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; UNCERTAINTY;

FORESTRY;

ERRORS; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744966635     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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