Model building with belief networks and influence diagrams

Advances in Decision Analysis: From Foundations to Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 177-201

  Shachter, Ross D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 80051967612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511611308     Document Type: Chapter

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