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... Understanding uncertainty: Small but lethal Comparing and communicating small ...

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... telecommunications industry. A mathematical understanding of stochastic processes is essential in communications science, ... as wind power, in the electricity grid, there will also be uncertainty, as we don’t know what the wind will be doing tomorrow," explains ...

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... because environmental factors also come into play. Uncertainty comes into almost every aspect of the analysis, and to enable ... David Speigelhalter's Plus column or visit the Understanding uncertainty website . (54, editorial, Genes, mathematics ...

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... 2009 In this issue... Understanding uncertainty: Breast screening, a statistical controversy One in nine ...

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September 2008 Understanding uncertainty: How long will you live? Well, no-one knows exactly, but ...

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... Plus in attendance will be the Cambridge-based blogs Understanding Uncertainty and Sciencebase . There aren't many mathematically focused ...

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... by recognising statistical patterns and quantifying uncertainty using probabilities. The NNM programme grew out of the recognition ... is David Spiegelhalter , Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk and Senior Scientist at the Biostatistics Unit in the ...

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... cost of pensions might change in the future and how much uncertainty there was in those projections. The programme, says Cairns, gave ... "The real problem in the credit crisis was a lack of understanding and communication of assumptions and limitations of the models," ...

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... in the journal Physica A ; The Plus article Understanding uncertainty: The Premier League finds more randomness in sport; There ...

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... of discoveries in the 1920s – including Hiesenberg's uncertainty principle, the probabilistic nature of quantum theory and ... of the scientist, whose ambition is to gain the maximum understanding of what is happening in the physical world. To settle for less ...

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