Decision analysis and risk management 2013/Homework
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Homework 1: Mikko Pohjola's thesis
Due date: 10 Jan
- Task: Familiarise yourself to Mikko Pohjola's thesis.
- Choose 2 of the following questions (such that have not been answered by someone else!) and answer them below the question. You may answer the same question as someone else, if you think that the existing answer is not complete and needs improvement.
- Questions:
- What are the dimensions of openness?
Answer...
- What are the main tendencies when looking at different environmental health assessment methods and their development?
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Homework 2: Basic concepts of open assessment
Due date: 11 Jan
- Task: Read the introductory pages listed below and write one question that you think needs clarification. The questions will be answered during the next lecture.
| Help pages | Wiki editing • How to edit wikipages • Quick reference for wiki editing • Drawing graphs • Opasnet policies • Watching pages • Writing formulae • Word to Wiki • Wiki editing Advanced skills |
| Training assessment (examples of different objects) | Training assessment • Training exposure • Training health impact • Training costs • Climate change policies and health in Kuopio • Climate change policies in Kuopio |
| Methods and concepts | Assessment • Variable • Method • Question • Answer • Rationale • Attribute • Decision • Result • Object-oriented programming in Opasnet • Universal object • Study • Formula • OpasnetBaseUtils • Open assessment • PSSP |
| Terms with changed use | Scope • Definition • Result • Tool |
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Homework 3: Draft of an assessment
Due date: 21 jan
- Task: With your pair, draft an assessment about the topic agreed on during the lecture. Write the draft assessment on either your or your partner's user page (and put a link to it on the other's user page). Copy the headings and explanations below to the page and use them as template.
Scope
- Defines the purpose of the assessment: why is it done?
Question
- A research question that the assessment attempts to answer.
Intended use and users
- List of users that are supposed to need the assessment. Also, how do we expect them to use the information?
Participants
- Who is needed to participate to make the assessment a well-balanced and well-informed work? Also, if specific reasons exists: who is not allowed to participate and why?
Scenarios
- Decisions and decision options considered. Also, if scenarios (defined here as delibarate deviations from the truth) are used, they are described here. For example this is a scenario: "Let's assume that the whole population is exposed as much as the maximally exposed individual, because we want to see if even the worst-case scenario causes concern."
Analyses
- What statistical or other analyses are needed to be able to produce results that are useful for making conclusions about the question?
Answer
Results
- What are the results of the analysis?
Conclusion
- What is the conclusion about the question based on the results obtained?
Rationale
Endpoints
- What are the stakeholders that we should consider?
- What are the endpoints that a stakeholder is interested in? How would the stakeholder summarise the endpoints to derive an overall preference ranking for outcomes of decision options? Think about this separately for each stakeholder.
Variables
- What are the issues that should be looked at to be able to understand the outcomes of the decision options?
- Typically, with health impact assessments:
- What emissions and exposures should be considered?
- What health endpoints should be considered?
- What exposure-response functions should be considered?
- What population subgroups should be considered?
