Risk analysis of the space shuttle: Pre-challenger prediction of failure

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 84, Issue 408, 1989, Pages 945-957

  Dalal, Siddhartha R ^a   Fowlkes, Edward B ^b   Hoadley, Bruce ^c  

^a Statistics and Econometrics Research Group ^*  (United States)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Cent   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophic failure; Data analysis; O rings; Probability risk assessment; Statistical science

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001474032     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1989.10478858     Document Type: Article

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