Bayesian assessment of network reliability

SIAM Review

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 202-227

  Lynn, Nicholas ^a   Singpurwalla, Nozer ^a   Smith, Adrian ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherent structures; Communication networks; Conditional independence; Dependent components; Fault tree analysis; Gibbs sampling; Hypercube; Manufacturing systems; Monte Carlo integration; Multivariate exponential; Simulation; System reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN METHODS; GIBBS SAMPLING; NETWORK RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032099188     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144596306782     Document Type: Article

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