Should we risk it? : exploring environmental, health, and technological problem solving /
"How dangerous is smoking? What are the risks of nuclear power or of climate change? What are the chances of dying on an airplane? More importantly, how do we use this information once we have it? The demand for risk analysts who are able to answer such questions has grown exponentially in rece...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Basic Models and Risk Problems
- 3. Review of Statistics for Risk Analysis
- 4. Uncertainty, Monte Carlo Methods, and Bayesian Analysis
- 5. Toxicology
- 6. Epidemiology
- 7. Exposure Assessment
- 8. Technological Risk
- 9. Decision Making
- 10. Risk Perception and Communication
- App. A. Z-Scores
- App. B. Student's T-test
- App. C. Chi-Squared Distribution.