Experts in Uncertainty: Opinion and Subjective Probability in Science

by Roger Cooke

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064658
• ISBN13: 9780195064650
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 12.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"