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Some examples of the communication of risk and uncertainty
Author(s) -
Brillinger David R.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
environmetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-095X
pISSN - 1180-4009
DOI - 10.1002/env.1040
Subject(s) - econometrics , risk communication , set (abstract data type) , space (punctuation) , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , statistics , mathematics , business , programming language , operating system
Definitions are set down and results of analyses of communication of risk and uncertainty are presented for the fields of wildfires, earthquakes and space debris. These are all fields of some societal importance. Also there is discussion of methods of evaluating and displaying estimates of risk estimates' uncertainty. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.