FEATURED AUTHOR
Michael Smithson
Michael Smithson is a Professor in the Research School of Psychology at The Australian National University in Canberra. His primary research interests are in judgment and decision making under uncertainty, statistical methods for the social sciences, and applications of fuzzy set theory to the social sciences.
Biography
Michael Smithson is a Professor in the Research School of Psychology at The Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author of Confidence Intervals (2003), Statistics with Confidence (2000), Ignorance and Uncertainty (1989), and Fuzzy Set Analysis for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (1987), co-author of Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the Social Sciences (2006) and Generalized Linear Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables (2013), and co-editor of Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2008) and Resolving Social Dilemmas: Dynamic, Structural, and Intergroup Aspects (1999). His other publications include more than 140 refereed journal articles and book chapters. His primary research interests are in judgment and decision making under uncertainty, statistical methods for the social sciences, and applications of fuzzy set theory to the social sciences.Education
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BSc Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 1972
PhD Sociology, University of Oregon, 1976
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Judgment and decision making under uncertainty, statistical methods for the social sciences, and applications of fuzzy set theory to the social sciences.
Personal Interests
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Art; see website at http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1857674/ArtGallery/index.htm