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18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4319-4325

  Kuhnert, P M ^a   Hayes, K R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian Belief Networks; Conditional probabilities; Elicitation; Model complexity; Model structure; Prior information

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ECOLOGY; FISHERIES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; METADATA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; EXPERT INFORMATIONS; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; QUANTITIES OF INTERESTS; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 85086237961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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