Making Confident Decisions with Model Ensembles.

Many policy decisions take input from collections of scientific models. Such decisions face significant and often poorly understood uncertainty. We rework the so-called confidence approach to tackle decision-making under severe uncertainty with multiple models, and we illustrate the approach with a...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 88; no. 3; pp. 439 - 461
Autores principales: Roussos, Joe, Bradley, Richard, Frigg, Roman
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jul2021
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Sumario:Many policy decisions take input from collections of scientific models. Such decisions face significant and often poorly understood uncertainty. We rework the so-called confidence approach to tackle decision-making under severe uncertainty with multiple models, and we illustrate the approach with a case study: insurance pricing using hurricane models. The confidence approach has important consequences for this case and offers a powerful framework for a wide class of problems. We end by discussing different ways in which model ensembles can feed information into the approach, appropriate to different collections of models.