September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
5h 56m
English
Content preview from Risk Analysis, 2nd Edition
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Index
- AIR, Average Individual Risk
- ALARP
- background knowledge
- backward approach
- barrier block diagram
- barriers
- Bayes' formula
- Bayesian approach
- Bayesian networks
- benefit analysis
- Binomial distribution
- bow-tie
- cash flow
- causal chain approach
- cause analysis
- cause and effect analysis
- cautionary principle
- classical approach to risk
- coarse risk analysis
- common-cause
- conditional probability
- confidence interval
- consequence analysis
- consequences
- correlation coefficient
- cost-benefit analysis
- cost-benefit analysis (cost-effectiveness analysis)
- cost-effectiveness analysis
- criticality
- decision-making
- discount rate
- dose–response
- epistemic uncertainty
- event tree analyses
- event
- event tree analysis
- expected disutility
- expected net present value
- expected values
- FAR, Fatal Accident Rate
- fault tree analysis
- FAR
- flow network
- FMEA
- F–N curve
- frequency
- frequentist probability
- gross disproportion
- hazard
- HAZOP
- HES, Health, Environment and Safety
- ICAF
- importance analysis
- improvement potential
- independence
- individual risk
- infrastructure
- initiating events
- insurance
- interested party
- job safety analysis
- knowledge
- Law of large numbers
- manageability
- management review and judgement
- minimal cut sets
- model
- model-based risk analysis
- Monte Carlo simulation
- net present value
- Normal distribution
- objectives
- observable quantity
- odds
- operational risk
- opportunity
- outcomes
- PLL, Potential Loss of Life
- Poisson distribution
- posterior probability distribution
- precautionary principle
- prediction interval
- prior probability ...
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