Use of importance measures in risk-informed regulatory applications

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-226

  Cheok, Michael C ^a   Parry, Gareth W ^a   Sherry, Richard R ^a  

^a U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK ACHIEVEMENT WORTH; RISK REDUCTION WORTH;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032083843     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00144-0     Document Type: Article

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