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2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Role of Epistemic Uncertainty in Risk Analysis
Author : Didier Dubois
Published in: Scalable Uncertainty Management
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The notion of uncertainty has been a controversial issue for a long time. In particular the prominence of probability theory in the scientific arena has blurred some distinctions that were present from its inception, namely between uncertainty due to the variability of physical phenomena, and uncertainty due to a lack of information. The Bayesian school claims that whatever its origin, uncertainty can be modeled by single probability distributions [18].