Learning to predict human error: Issues of acceptability, reliability and validity

Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1737-1756

  Stanton, Neville A ^a   Stevenage, Sarah V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human error; Methodology; Reliability; Sensitivity; Validity

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; JOB ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; RELIABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HUMAN ERROR IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; HUMAN ERRORS;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; ERROR; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032211748     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401398186162     Document Type: Article

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