Computing with Confidence: Imprecise Posteriors and Predictive Distributions

Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Quantification, Mitigation, and Management - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management, ICVRAM 2014 and the 6th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 895-904

  Ferson, Scott ^a   O'Rawe, Jason ^a,b   Balch, Michael ^c  

^a APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Arctan Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILITY BOUNDS ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84921872479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784413609.091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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