Interpreting Null Results from Measurements with Uncertain Correlations: An Info-Gap Approach

Risk Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-85

  Ben Haim, Yakov ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Info gaps; Null results; Uncertain correlations

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INFO-GAP; INFO-GAP MODEL; INFO-GAPS; NESTED SETS; NON-PROBABILISTIC; NULL RESULTS; UNCERTAIN CORRELATIONS; WORST CASE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650574977     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01485.x     Document Type: Article

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