Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Nagy, Béla ^a   Farmer, J Doyne ^a   Bui, Quan M ^a,b   Trancik, Jessika E ^a,c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS; TECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84874525419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052669     Document Type: Article

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