Risk assessment and decision analysis with Bayesian networks /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fenton, Norman E., 1956-
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Neil, Martin (Martin D.)
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • There is more to assessing risk than statistics
  • Need for casual, explanatory models in risk assessment
  • Measuring uncertainty: the inevitability of subjectivity
  • Basics of probability
  • Bayes' theorom and conditional probability
  • From Nayes' theorem to Bayesian networks
  • Defining structure of Bayesian networks
  • Building and elicting node probability tables
  • Numeric variables and continuous distribution functions
  • Hypothesis and confidence intervals
  • Modeling operational risk
  • Systems reliability modeling
  • Bayes and the law
  • App. A: Basics of counting
  • App. B: Algebra of node probability tests
  • App. C: Junction tree Algorithm
  • App. D: Dynamic Discretization
  • App. E: Statistical distributions.