2014-2015 Academic Catalog

Nov 15, 2024

2014-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EN 265 - Risk Analysis: Policy and Methods

Discusses policy goals that have been advocated for risk-management decision making on environmental and occupational chemical exposures—including equity in the distributions of risks and benefits, and appropriate priority setting for the efficient use of public and private resources. Students apply quantitative-analysis techniques to risk/policy problems through: relevant sets of categories for analysis, reflecting both value and causal mechanism considerations; mechanistic dynamic modeling of physical/biological processes, analysis of distributions—including but not limited to fitting distributions to data—in order to elucidate both variability and uncertainty; and basic use of spreadsheets.