Selecting the best statistical distribution with PROMETHEE and GAIA

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 958-969

  Ishizaka, Alessio ^a   Nemery, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GAIA; Multi criteria decision analysis; PROMETHEE; Ranking; Statistical distribution

Indexed keywords

GAIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PROMETHEE; RANKING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054960694     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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