Mixed levels of uncertainty in complex policy models

Risk Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-42

  Casman, Elizabeth A ^a   Morgan, M Granger ^a   Dowlatabadi, Hadi ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemic uncertainty; Integrated assessment; Model uncertainty; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

COMPLEX POLICY MODELS; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; MODEL UNCERTAINTY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032909729     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006950109424     Document Type: Article

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