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Risk Factor (other)
Risk factor most commonly refers to: * Risk factor (epidemiology) * Risk factor (finance) It may also refer to: * Risk factor (criminology) * Risk factor (computing) In information security, risk factor is a collective name for circumstances affecting the likelihood or impact of a security risk. Definitions FAIR Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) is devoted to the analysis of different factors ... * Risk dominance in game theory {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risk Factor (epidemiology)
In epidemiology, a risk factor or determinant is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. Due to a lack of harmonization across disciplines, determinant, in its more widely accepted wikt:determine, scientific meaning, is often used as a synonym. The main difference lies in the realm of practice: medicine (Medicine#Clinical practice, clinical practice) versus public health. As an example from clinical practice, low ingestion of dietary sources of vitamin C is a known risk factor for developing scurvy. Specific to public health policy, a determinant is a health risk that is general, abstract, related to inequalities, and difficult for an individual to control. For example, poverty is known to be a determinant of an individual's standard of health. Risk factors may be used to identify high-risk people. Correlation vs causation Risk factors or determinants are correlational and not necessarily Causality, causal, because correlation does not prove causat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risk Factor (finance)
In finance, risk factors are the building blocks of investing, that help explain the systematic returns in equity market, and the possibility of losing money in investments or business adventures. A risk factor is a concept in finance theory such as the capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory and other theories that use pricing kernels. In these models, the rate of return of an asset (''hence the converse its price'') is a random variable whose realization in any time period is a linear combination of other random variables plus a disturbance term or white noise. In practice, a linear combination of observed factors included in a linear asset pricing model (for example, the Fama–French three-factor model) proxy for a linear combination of unobserved risk factors if financial market efficiency is assumed. In the Intertemporal CAPM, non-market factors proxy for changes in the investment opportunity set. Risk factors occur whenever any sort of asset is involved, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risk Factor (criminology)
Risk factor research has proliferated within the discipline of criminology in recent years, based largely on the early work of Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck in the US and David Farrington in the UK. The identification of risk factors that are allegedly predictive of offending and reoffending (especially by young people) has heavily influenced the criminal justice policies and practices of a number of first world countries, notably the UK, the USA and Australia. Criticism The robustness and validity of much 'artefactual' risk factor research (see Kemshall 2003) has recently come under sustained criticism for: * reductionism: oversimplifying complex experiences and circumstances by converting them to simple quantities, limiting investigation of risk factors to psychological and immediate social domains of life, whilst neglecting socio-structural influences; * determinism: characterising young people as passive victims of risk experiences with no ability to construct, negotiate or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risk Factor (computing)
In information security, risk factor is a collective name for circumstances affecting the likelihood or impact of a security risk. Definitions FAIR Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) is devoted to the analysis of different factors influencing IT risk. It decompose at various levels, starting from the first level Loss Event Frequency and Probable Loss Magnitude, going on examining the asset, the threat agent capability compared to the vulnerability (computing) and the security control (also called countermeasure) strength, the probability that the agent get in contact and actually act against the asset, the organization capability to react to the event and the impact on stakeholders. ISACA Risk factors are those factors that influence the frequency and/or business impact of risk scenarios; they can be of different natures, and can be classified in two major categories: * Environmental, further subdivided in: ** Internal environmental factors are, to a large exten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
