Eliciting beliefs about uncertain population means and variances

Our main aim in this thesis is to obtain an elicitation method for quantifying uncertainty about a population distribution with uncertain mean and variance. An example of where this methodology could be used is in risk analysis, where experts are uncertain about values of input parameters in a mecha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alhussain, Ziyad
Other Authors: Oakley, Jeremy
Published: University of Sheffield 2014
Subjects:
510
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.644789