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- ↑ "Fellows of the Society : SRA". www.sra.org.
- ↑ "Nine honored by Society for Risk Analysis" (PDF).
- ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6Dz2_9wAAAAJ&hl=en
- ↑ "Welcome to Prof Scott Ferson", University of Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty Newsletter, January 2017, editor Marco De Angelis, http://riskinstitute.uk.
- ↑ "Uncertainty projection in engineered systems". sites.google.com.
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