Accession Number:

ADA566729

Title:

Assessing Risks from Emerging Contaminants: Using Expert Elicitation and Group Decisions

Descriptive Note:

Briefing charts

Corporate Author:

ARMY PUBLIC HEALTH COMMAND ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Rak, A.
• Glaccum, W.
• Pitrat, T.

Report Date:

2010-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

21.0

Abstract:

Outline Background on expert elicitation, Phase I impact assessment process, Identification of experts, Elicitation methods, Results, Next steps. Expert Elicitation is a formal process by which expert judgment is obtained to quantify or probabilistically encode uncertainty about some uncertain quantity, relationship, parameter, or event of decision relevance .

Descriptors:

• *CONTAMINANTS
• *DECISION MAKING
• *RISK MANAGEMENT
• IDENTIFICATION
• JUDGEMENT(PSYCHOLOGY)
• PARAMETERS
• QUANTITY
• SYMPOSIA
• UNCERTAINTY

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Environmental Health and Safety

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE