The treatment of uncertainty in the sciences

Endeavour

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 154-158

  Rouvray, Dennis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0160-9327(97)01076-4     Document Type: Article

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