Title: Acting under uncertainty : multidisciplinary conceptions /
Authors: Von Furstenberg, George M., 1941-
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Uncertainty.; Decision making; Risk.; Microeconomics.
Contents: Coping with uncertainty in natural science : 1200-1700 / A. George Molland -- Political, moral, and economic decisions and the origins of the mathematical theory of probability : the case of Jacob Bernoulli's The art of conjecturing / Edith Sylla -- The quantification of uncertainty after 1700 : statistics socially constructed? / Theodore M. Porter -- Uncertainty and the conditioning of beliefs / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- The unity of probability / Glenn Shafer -- Necessity, chance, and freedom / Gernot M.R. Winkler -- Risk in cultural perspective / Steve Rayner -- Statistical hypothesis tests and statistical power in pure and applied science / David F. Parkhurst -- Uncertainty in environmental risk assessment / Glenn W. Suter II -- Uncertainty in morals and politics / Hector-Heri Castañeda.