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Journal of Environmental Systems
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Risk Assessment With Lower Probabilities: Application to Toxic Wastes
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Bruce
Tonn
Carl
Wagner
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Traditional approaches to the quantitative analysis of uncertainty employ probabilities, although evidence to support the principled assessment of such additive measures is often lacking. We show how both optimization and conditionalization can be carried out using the less structured, hence more realistic, class of lower probabilities, illustrating these techniques with a problem involving toxic wastes.
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