A web-based tool for eliciting probability distributions from experts

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-4

  Morris, David E ^a   Oakley, Jeremy E ^b   Crowe, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian prior distribution; Expert judgement; Subjective probability; Web based elicitation

Indexed keywords

TOOLS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VIDEO CONFERENCING; WEBSITES;

BAYESIAN PRIORS; EXPERT ELICITATION; EXPERT JUDGEMENT; GRAPHICAL DISPLAYS; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY; UNCERTAIN MODELING; WEB-BASED ELICITATION; WEB-BASED TOOLS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL METHOD; INTERNET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887551125     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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