Risk Analysis Foundations, Models, and Methods

• 1 Introduction and Basic Risk Models.- 2 Risk Assessment Modeling.- 3 Statistical Risk Modeling.- 4 Causality.- 5 Individual Risk Management Decisions.- 6 Choosing among Risk Profiles.- 7 Multi-Attribute, Multi-Person, and Multi-Period Risks.- 8 Multi-Party Risk Management Decision Processess.- References.

From the reviews: 'The book is well structured and based on the latest references to literature and software, including Web-links. [...]distinguishing characteristics of risk analysis and reltions to other disciplines as well as relations between different models and approaches are clearly presented, which aids the choice of an appropriate risk analysis model. [... The presentation of the material is comprehensible, thanks to the numerous didactic examples. [...] In summary, the book can be highly recommended as an overview on latest trends in risk analysis as well as a source of case studies, for teaching health, safety, and environmental risk analysis.' OR News, 19 (2003) "Health risk analysis is considered extensively in this book ... many interesting questions (in theory as well as in applications) for operations researchers and management scientists are discussed. ... The book contains more than 500 pages and more than 650 references. It is well written and structured, and in particular, the extensive number of examples provided throughout the book give an excellent insight in the topic of health risk analysis." (Stefan Nickel, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1060 (11), 2005)