Expert judgment in forecasting construction project completion

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 271-293

  Al Tabtabai, Hashem ^a   Kartam, Nabil ^a   Flood, Ian ^b   Alex, Alex P ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Construction management; Expert judgment; Regression analysis; Schedule variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993054016     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb021053     Document Type: Review

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