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By Tim Bedford,Roger Cooke

Probabilistic probability research goals to quantify the danger brought on by excessive know-how installations. more and more, such analyses are being utilized to a much wider classification of structures during which difficulties akin to loss of facts, complexity of the structures, uncertainty approximately effects, make a classical statistical research tricky or most unlikely. The authors talk about the basic concept of uncertainty, its courting with chance, and the boundaries to the quantification of uncertainty. Drawing on broad event within the thought and purposes of hazard research, the authors specialize in the conceptual and mathematical foundations underlying the quantification, interpretation and administration of threat. They conceal normal subject matters in addition to very important new topics resembling using professional judgement and uncertainty propagation. the connection of probability research with determination making is highlighted in chapters on impact diagrams and determination conception. ultimately, the problems of selecting metrics to quantify possibility, and present regulatory frameworks are discussed.

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