Learning About Clinical Uncertainty

Decision making under uncertainty and learning about climate change

Learning and Reasoning about Uncertainty in the Semantic Web

The main idea behind the Semantic Web is the representation of knowledge in an explicit and formal way. This is done using ontology representation languages as OWL, which is based on Description Logics and other logic formalisms. One of the main objectives with this kind of knowledge representation is that it can then be used for reasoning. But the way reasoning is done in the Semantic Web tech...

Questions about certainty and uncertainty in clinical practice.

PURPOSE This article offers a critical response to Kamhi's (2011) essay regarding the need to balance certainty and uncertainty in evidence-based practice (EBP). METHOD Points of concordance and discordance (counterpoints) between Kamhi's essay and the author's frames of reference were considered. RESULTS In agreement with Kamhi, a major role is outlined for clinicians to use questions stra...

Uncertainty about Uncertainty and Delay in Bargaining

We study a one-sided offers bargaining game in which the buyer has private information about the value of the object and the seller has private information about his beliefs about the buyer. We show that this uncertainty about uncertainties dramatically changes the set of possible outcomes when compared to two-sided private information. In particular, higher order beliefs can lead to a delay in...

When Is Uncertainty About Uncertainty Worth Characterizing?

In areas of risk assessment ranging from terrorism to health, safety, and the environment, authoritative guidance urges risk analysts to quantify and display their uncertainties about inputs that significantly affect the results of an analysis, including their uncertainties about subjective probabilities of events. Such “uncertainty characterization” is said to be an important part of fully and...