In every case, such tacit factors as expert judgment, lengthy apprenticeship, pragmatic inventiveness, hands-on experience, and a feel for the job were decisive.

Confidence levels were assigned based on the authors' collective expert judgment of observational evidence, modeling results, and theory that they had examined.

The assessor assesses this data (using their expert judgment) against a process's base practices and the capability dimension's generic practices in the process rating step.

This technique was found to cover the relevant parts of the quality panel evaluation, while at the same time being easier to deploy, as it didn't require expert judgment.

Unrecorded consumption was calculated using empirical investigations and expert judgments.