Quantile-parameterized distributions

Decision Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 206-219

  Keelin, Thomas W ^a   Powley, Bradford W ^b  

^a Keelin Reeds Partners   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Basis function; Continuous probability distribution; Decision analysis; Inverse cumulative distribution function; Probability encoding; Quantile function

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052645122     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1110.0213     Document Type: Article

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