Reliability methods as management tools: Dependence modelling and partial mission success

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-180

  Bedford, T ^a   Cooke, R M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DECISION THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT;

STANDARD RELIABILITY MODELS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0031268265     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00033-1     Document Type: Article

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