Application of structural equation modeling to assign the weights for evaluation indexes of brownfield development project

IEEM 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 588-592

  Zhu, Yuming ^a   Su, Haitang ^a   Pan, Quan ^a   Guo, Peng ^a   Yu, Mingjie ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brownfield redevelopment project; Evaluation index; Structural equation modeling (SEM); Weight assignment

Indexed keywords

BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT; BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT; CRITERIA AND INDICATORS; EVALUATION INDEX; EVALUATION INDEX SYSTEM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WEIGHT ASSIGNMENT;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 77949499268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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