Adam Smith was the first economist or mathematician in history to present an explicit, detailed, interval estimate approach to probability in an application involving the economic analysis of occupational choice.In general, the expected value and/or expected utility (subjective expected utility)...

Based on subjective survival probability questions in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we use an econometric model to estimate the determinants of individual-level uncertainty about personal longevity. This model is built around the Modal Response Hypothesis (MRH), a mathematical...

The saddlepoint approximation formulas provide versatile tools for analytic approximation of the tail expectation of a random variable by approximating the complex Laplace integral of the tail expectation expressed in terms of the cumulant generating function of the random variable. We...