Category
page 1Probability assessment
percentage point
unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages
risk assessment
analysis with risk acceptance criteria or other decision parameters
prior probability
probability distribution that would express one's uncertainty before some evidence is taken into account
micromort
A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure the riskiness of various day-to-day activities. A microprobability is a one-in-a million chance of some event; thus, a micromort is the microprobability of death. The micromort concept was introduced by Ronald A. Howard who pioneered the modern practice of decision analysis.
principle of maximum entropy
principle in Bayesian statistics
risk perception
subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk
probabilistic risk assessment
systematic and comprehensive methodology to evaluate risks associated with a complex engineered technological entity
Formal epistemology
use of methods from decision theory, logic, probability theory and computability theory to model and reason about issues of epistemological interest
Laplace–Bayes estimator
in probability theory, the estimator (𝑠+1)∕(𝑛+2) for the probability of success of the next run of an experiment which one has repeated 𝑛 times with 𝑠 successes