The Law of Regression to the Tail : How to Survive COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, and Other Disasters

Regression to the mean is nice and reliable. Regression to the tail is reliably scary. We live in the age of regression to the tail. It is only a matter of time until a pandemic worse than COVID-19 will hit us, and climate more extreme than any we have seen. What are the basic principles that generate such extreme risk, and for navigating it, for government, business, and the public?

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Flyvbjerg, Bent
Publisher:	[2020]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Coronavirus \| Klimawandel \| Climate change \| Welt \| World \| Katastrophe \| Disaster \| Regressionsanalyse \| Regression analysis

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (17 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Flyvbjerg, Bent, 2020, "The Law of Regression to the Tail: How to Survive Covid-19, the Climate Crisis, and Other Disasters," Environmental Science and Policy, online, October, 2020 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 13, 2020 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3600070 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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