Assessing Risks Through the Determination of Rare Event Probabilities

DOI10.1287/opre.30.5.839zbMath0505.62100OpenAlexW2005728252MaRDI QIDQ4742215

Robert L. Smith, Allan R. Sampson

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.30.5.839

zbMATH Keywords

partial informationrisk assessmentexpert judgementinformation theoretic modelcatastrophic eventsdetermination of rare event probabilitiesKullback-Leibler discriminatormerging judgements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) Statistical decision theory (62C99) Operations research and management science (90B99)

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