Quantifying expert opinion for modelling fauna habitat distributions

Computational Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-140

  Al Awadhi, Shafiqah A ^a   Garthwaite, Paul H ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment Task; Expert opinion; Logistic Regression Model; Prior Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750194958     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-006-0255-x     Document Type: Article

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