Reasoning with Safety Factor Rules.

Safety factor rules are used for drawing putatively reasonable conclusions from incomplete datasets. The paper attempts to provide answers to four questions: "How are safety factors used?", "When are safety factors used?", "Why are safety used?" and "How do safety factor rules relate to decision the...

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Published in:	Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 55 - 71
Main Authors:	Clausen, Jonas, Cantwell, John
Format:	Article
Published:	Philosophy Documentation Center Fall2007
Subjects:	Safety factor in engineering Decision theory Decision making Statistical decision making Management science
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