Visualizing uncertainty about the future

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6048, 2011, Pages 1393-1400

  Spiegelhalter, David ^a   Pearson, Mike ^a   Short, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GRAPHICAL METHOD; POLITICS; PROBABILITY; SPORT; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILE; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FRANCE; FUTUROLOGY; GRAPHIC VISUALIZATION; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLITICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SAMPLING ERROR; SPORT; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WEATHER; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA DISPLAY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBABILITY; RISK; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 80052630269     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191181     Document Type: Review

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