Possibilistic risk assessment

Some events are so rare that it is impossible to construct any evidence-based probability distribution for them. Judgmental assessment of probability is also suspect because extremely small probabilities are not readily distinguished from one another subjectively. We define a class of extremely rare events called "adventitious events" and illustrate the use of possibility theory to analyze risks associated with them.

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