Bounding the Results of Arithmetic Operations on Random Variables of Unknown Dependency Using Intervals

Reliable Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 147-165

  Berleant, Daniel ^a   Goodman Strauss, Chaim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 0000210906     PISSN: 13853139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009933109326     Document Type: Article

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