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Theory and Method

Modeling Expert Opinion Arising as a Partial Probabilistic Specification

Alan E. Gelfand Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269
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Bani K. Mallick Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ, UK
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Dipak K. Dey Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269
Pages 598-604 | Received 01 Sep 1992, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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