Risk matrix input data biases

Systems Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 344-360

  Smith, Eric D ^a   Siefert, William T ^b   Drain, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive biases; Risk analysis; Risk matrix; Subjective probability; Utility function

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE BIAS; COGNITIVE BIASES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INPUT DATAS; OBJECTIVE PROBABILITIES; RISK MATRIX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY; UTILITY FUNCTION;

MATRIX ALGEBRA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR;

RISK ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350346088     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20126     Document Type: Article

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