Propagation of Uncertainty in Risk Assessments: The Need to Distinguish Between Uncertainty Due to Lack of Knowledge and Uncertainty Due to Variability

Risk Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 707-712

  Hoffman, F Owen ^a   Hammonds, Jana S ^a  

^a SENES Oak Ridge Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

lack of knowledge; Monte Carlo methods; Uncertainty; variability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOSTATISTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION RISK; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028131950     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00281.x     Document Type: Article

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