Bayesian Models in Assessment and Management

Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 97-120

  Moe, S Jannicke ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian models in assessment and management popular in environmental risk assessment; Bayesian network (BNs) use in ecosystem modeling and ecological risk assessment; Bayesian statistical inference foundation for hierarchical Bayesian modeling (HBM) in risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886328411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470593028.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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