A multinomial-Dirichlet model for analysis of competing hypotheses

Risk Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1699-1709

  Duncan, Kristin A ^a   Wilson, Jonathan L ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of competing hypotheses; Bayesian updating; Data fusion; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MODAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF COMPETING HYPOTHESES; BAYES FACTORS; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN UPDATING; DIRICHLET; HIERARCHICAL MODELS; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSES; INTERVAL ESTIMATES; MULTINOMIAL; PRIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; SAN DIEGO; UNCERTAINTY;

FAULT DETECTION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 55349089218     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01139.x     Document Type: Article

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