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Risk Regulation And The Faces Of Uncertainty, Vern R. Walker Jan 1998

Risk Regulation And The Faces Of Uncertainty, Vern R. Walker

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Walker addresses the difficulty of regulators' working with potentially inaccurate information and clarifies related aspects of decision making by presenting a taxonomy for the kinds of uncertainty inherent in necessarily incomplete data.


Book Review Of Deborah G. Mayo, Error And The Growth Of Experimental Knowledge (University Of Chicago Press 1996), Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette Sep 1997

Book Review Of Deborah G. Mayo, Error And The Growth Of Experimental Knowledge (University Of Chicago Press 1996), Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of the book: Deborah G. Mayo, Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge (University of Chicago Press 1996). Figures, index, preface, references. ISBN 0-226-51197-9 [493 pp. $74.00 Cloth; $29.95 Paper. 5801 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637.]


Sources Of Epidemiological Equivocacy, Timothy Sly Jan 1996

Sources Of Epidemiological Equivocacy, Timothy Sly

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Mr. Sly discusses five sources of uncertainty and ambiguity in health and medical research that can interfere with decision making.