Risk assessment for highway projects using jackknife technique

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 5514-5524

  Mousavi, S M ^a   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, R ^a   Azaron, A ^b,c   Mojtahedi, S M H ^d   Hashemi, H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Highway projects; Jackknife; Non parametric resampling technique; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY PROJECTS; JACKKNIFE; NON-PARAMETRIC; NORMAL PROBABILITY PLOT; RESAMPLING TECHNIQUE; RISK RANKING; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HIGHWAY PLANNING; RATING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79151485088     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.10.085     Document Type: Article

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