On Fates Comparable to Death

DOI10.1287/MNSC.30.4.407MaRDI QIDQ3223769zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ronald A. Howard

Publication date 1984

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.30.4.407

zbMATH Keywords

risk assessmentrisks of deathextreme disabilitylife value

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05)

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