Experts in Uncertainty - Opinion and Subjective Probability in Science (Hardcover, New)

This book is an extensive survey and critical examination of the literature on the use of expert opinion in scientific inquiry and policy making. The elicitation, representation, and use of expert opinion is increasingly important for two reasons: advancing technology leads to more and more complex decision problems, and technologists are turning in greater numbers to "expert systems" and other similar artifacts of artificial intelligence. Cooke here considers how expert opinion is being used today, how an expert's uncertainty is or should be represented, how people do or should reason with uncertainty, how the quality and usefulness of expert opinion can be assessed, and how the views of several experts might be combined. He argues for the importance of developing practical models with a transparent mathematic foundation for the use of expert opinion in science, and presents three tested models, termed "classical," "Bayesian," and "psychological scaling." Detailed case studies illustrate how they can be applied to a diversity of real problems in engineering and planning.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
Release date:	June 1991
First published:	June 1991
Authors:	Roger M. Cooke (Associate Professor of Mathematics and Informatics)
Dimensions:	244 x 162 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	334
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-506465-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Science funding & policy Promotions
LSN:	0-19-506465-8
Barcode:	9780195064650

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