Estimating risk : a management approach / Andy Garlick.
Material type: TextPublication details: Aldershot : Gower, 2007.Description: 200 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780566087769 (hbk.) :
- 9780566087769 (hbk.)
- 658.155 GAR
- HD61
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 658.155 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 217135 |
Includes index.
Part 1.Risk management overview -- 1.Risk in context -- 2.A brief introduction to risk management -- 3.Quantitative risk estimates -- 4.Using risk models -- Part II.Risk models -- 5.Reliability and other binary models -- 6.Cost and other additive models -- 7.Time and programme -- 8.General models -- Part III.Decisions and risk -- 9.Public sector decisions -- 11.Safety decisions -- Part IV.Techniques -- 12.Probability -- 13.Monte Carlo -- 14.Decision analysis.
Estimating risk explains the main quantitative risk models using language and a perspective that makes them understandable to the non-specialist and then focuses on how to use them to help in decision making.