Development and evaluation of an uncertainty importance measure in fault tree analysis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-157

  Cho, Jae Gyeun ^a   Yum, Bong Jin ^b  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY;

TAGUCHI TOLERANCE TECHNIQUE;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031200341     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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