Uncertainty in prior elicitations: A nonparametric approach

Biometrika

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 427-441

  Oakley, Jeremy E ^a   O'Hagan, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert elicitation; Gaussian process; Nonparametric density estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548446776     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asm031     Document Type: Article

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