probabilistic risk assessment
Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-005182
Risk evaluation involving the calculation and expression of risks using multiple risk descriptors to provide the likelihood of various risk levels. Probabilistic risk results approximate a full range of possible outcomes and the likelihood of each, which often is presented as a frequency distribution graph, thus allowing uncertainty or variability to be expressed quantitatively.
| Identifier | MLC-T-AGR-005182 |
|---|---|
| Field | Agriculture and food |
| Subject | Economics, Trade, Law, Business, Industry |
| Synonyms | probabilistic risk analysis; probabilistic risk model; stochastic risk analysis; stochastic risk assessment; stochastic risk model |
| References | US Environmental Protection Agency; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary |
| See also | risk assessment; quantitative risk assessment; probability; probability analysis |
| Translations | Spanish: valoración probabilística del riesgo |
Record as JSON
{
"id": "MLC-T-AGR-005182",
"term": "probabilistic risk assessment",
"field": "Agriculture and food",
"definition": "Risk evaluation involving the calculation and expression of risks using multiple risk descriptors to provide the likelihood of various risk levels. Probabilistic risk results approximate a full range of possible outcomes and the likelihood of each, which often is presented as a frequency distribution graph, thus allowing uncertainty or variability to be expressed quantitatively.",
"synonyms": [
"probabilistic risk analysis",
"probabilistic risk model",
"stochastic risk analysis",
"stochastic risk assessment",
"stochastic risk model"
],
"subject": "Economics, Trade, Law, Business, Industry",
"see_also": [
"risk assessment",
"quantitative risk assessment",
"probability",
"probability analysis"
],
"references": [
"US Environmental Protection Agency",
"NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
],
"translations": {
"es": "valoración probabilística del riesgo"
},
"url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/probabilistic-risk-assessment/"
}
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