Identifying tails, bounds and end-points of random variables

Structural Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-23

  Caers, Jef ^a   Maes, Marc A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; End points; Extreme value statistics; Quantile plots; Reliability index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001877359     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(97)00036-2     Document Type: Article

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