Uncertainty and chance is a subject with a broad span in that there is noacademic discipline or walk of life that is not beset by uncertainty andchance. In this... » 

Uncertainty and chance is a subject with a broad span in that there is noacademic discipline or walk of life that is not beset by uncertainty andchance. In this book a range of approaches is represented by authors fromvaried disciplines natural sciences mathematics social sciences and medicalsciences. At one extreme this volume is concerned with the foundations ofprobability. At the other extreme we have scholars who acknowledge the conceptof chance and uncertainty but do not cope with it by means of systematicmeasurement or quantative analysis. «