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A Review of Contemporary Methods for the Presentation of Scientific Uncertainty Public Deposited

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  • Graphical methods for displaying uncertainty are often the most concise and informative way to communicate abstract concepts. Presentation methods currently in use for the display and interpretation of scientific uncertainty are reviewed. Numerous subjective and objective uncertainty display methods are presented, including qualitative assessments, node and arrow diagrams, standard statistical methods, box-and-whisker plots, robustness and opportunity functions, contribution indexes, probability density functions, cumulative distribution functions, and graphical likelihood functions.
  • This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by the Health Physics Society and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The published article can be found at: http://journals.lww.com/health-physics/pages/default.aspx.
  • Keywords: Reviews, Risk Communication, Risk Estimates, Public Information
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  • Makinson, K. A., Hamby, D. M., & Edwards, J. A. (2012). A review of contemporary methods for the presentation of scientific uncertainty. Health Physics, 103(6), 714-731. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31824e6f6f
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  • 103
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  • This work was made possible in part by funding provided from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency under research grant #HDTRA1-08-1-0044 with Oregon State University.
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