Executives' perceived environmental uncertainty shortly after 9/11

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3502-3515

  Soofi, E S ^a,b   Nystrom, P C ^a   Yasai Ardekani, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNED PROBABILITIES; BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELS; BAYESIAN REGRESSIONS; BIVARIATE; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DECISION MAKERS; DIRICHLET; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTIES; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; MAIL SURVEYS; MARGINAL ENTROPIES; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY METHODS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PERCEIVED ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTIES; RESPONSE CAPABILITIES; RESPONSE DISTRIBUTIONS; SHANNON ENTROPIES; TERRORIST ATTACKS; TRIVARIATE; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ENTROPY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 64749084268     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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