Potential effects of the confirmation bias in house condition surveys

Structural Survey

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 6-12

  Kempton, Jim ^a   Alani, Amir ^b   Chapman, Keith ^b  

^a Touchstone Housing Association   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Expert systems; Surveyors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986031656     PISSN: 0263080X     EISSN: 17586844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02630800210426204     Document Type: Article

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