Constrained noninformative priors in risk assessment

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-46

  Atwood, Corwin L ^a,b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; WASTE TREATMENT;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DATA MODELS; STANDBY SAFETY SYSTEM;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030188682     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8320(96)00026-9     Document Type: Article

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