Uncertainty Modeling

Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapportBogForskning

Abstract

Decisions can never be better than the knowledge upon which they are based. The understanding of knowledge or rather the lack of knowledge, ie uncertainty, is thus central in engineering decision making. This chapter, which comprises four lectures, addresses uncertainty and its representation or modeling in engineering. The chapter contains a wide selection of examples of engineering relevance, which illustrate the presented concepts and their application. The first lecture in this chapter, Lecture 4, starts with a philosophical …
OriginalsprogEngelsk
ForlagSpringer
Antal sider43
StatusUdgivet - 2012
Udgivet eksterntJa
NavnStatistics and Probability Theory

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