Title
A Bayesian paired comparison approach for relative accident probability assessment with covariate information
Abstract
One of the challenges managers face when trying to understand complex, technological systems (in their efforts to mitigate system risks) is the quantification of accident probability, particularly in the case of rare events. Once this risk information has been quantified, managers and decision makers can use it to develop appropriate policies, design projects, and/or allocate resources that will mitigate risk. However, rare event risk information inherently suffers from a sparseness of accident data. Therefore, expert judgment is often elicited to develop frequency data for these high-consequence rare events. When applied appropriately, expert judgment can serve as an important (and, at times, the only) source of risk information. This paper presents a Bayesian methodology for assessing relative accident probabilities and their uncertainty using paired comparison to elicit expert judgments. The approach is illustrated using expert judgment data elicited for a risk study of the largest passenger ferry system in the US.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.ejor.2004.04.047
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Applied probability,Expert judgment,Risk analysis
Covariate,Applied probability,Probability assessment,Risk analysis (business),Operations research,Resource allocation,Mathematics,Rare events,Bayesian probability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
169
1
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
1.40
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Szwed1153.03
J. René van Dorp211616.43
Jason R. W. Merrick313516.29
Thomas A. Mazzuchi423636.86
Amita Singh5182.54