Mortality Risk Perceptions: A Bayesian Reassessment

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-150

  Hakes, Jahn ^a   Viscusi, W Kip ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Learning; Mortality; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BELIEFS--DETERMINANTS; BIOLOGY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; INFANT MORTALITY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION--DETERMINANTS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORLD;

BEHAVIOR; BELIEFS--DETERMINANTS; BIOLOGY; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURE; DEATH RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; EVALUATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; PERCEPTION--DETERMINANTS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WORLD;

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031264572     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007782217912     Document Type: Article

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