Is human failure a stochastic process?

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-215

  Dougherty, Ed M ^a  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMAN FAILURE; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0031084047     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00122-6     Document Type: Article

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