An Introduction to Risk Analysis [2nd ed.]

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This second edition has all of the material from the first edition: managing data, distributions, lognormal distributions, permutations and combinations, binomials, Gambler's Ruin, opinion analysis, triangular distributions, cumulative frequency distributions, and basin assessment. In addition, three significant new chapters of Risk Analysis detail important new areas with discussions of: Risking prospects and a methodology by which all prospects can be risked consistently; Allocations of dry risk and aspects involving reservoirs; History of overbids in sealed-bid sales. Contents include: lots of data; More about distributions; Defining characteristics of distribution; The lognormal distribution; The shape of distributions; Permutations and combinations; Binomials and binomial coefficients; Gambler's Ruin; Opinion analysis or the case for subjective probability; Converting uncertainty to cumulative frequency distributions; Basin assessment; Competitive bidding; The mechanics of prospect risking; More on prospect risking; The ever-present overbid; The fundamentals of risk analysis; Triangular distributions; Shortcuts to calculating the mean of a distribution; Binomial proabability tables; Index. Tulsa, Oklahoma. PennWell Books. 274 pp., num. figs & tabs, hardback gr. 8 [16 x 23.3 cm].…

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Title
An Introduction to Risk Analysis [2nd ed.]
Author
Megill, R. E.
Publication year
1984
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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