Whose uncertainty assessments (probability distributions) does a risk assessment report: The analysts or the experts?

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1257-1262

  Aven, Terje ^a   Guikema, Seth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elicitation; Epistemic; Experts; Risk assessment; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ELICITATION; EPISTEMIC; EXPERTS; INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTIES; RISK ASSESSMENT REPORTS; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79961009883     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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