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Measuring Uncertainty
Author(s) -
MOORE P. G.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1980.tb00367.x
Subject(s) - judgement , decision maker , probability distribution , action (physics) , econometrics , mathematics , mathematical economics , statistics , computer science , operations research , epistemology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
When analysing situations which involve decisions to be made as between alternative courses of action under conditions of uncertainty, decision maker and their advisers are often called upon to assess judgemental probability distributions of quantities whose true values are unknown to them. How can this judgement be taught?