Road tunnels construction cost estimation: A structural equation model development and comparison

Operational Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-173

  Petroutsatou, Kleopatra ^a   Lambropoulos, Sergios ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cost estimation; Multiple regression analysis; Neural networks; Structural equation model; Tunnels

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956917233     PISSN: 11092858     EISSN: 18661505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-009-0061-7     Document Type: Review

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