On two-stage Bayesian modeling of initiating event frequencies and failure rates

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-99

  Hofer, E ^a  

^a Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

BAYES THEOREM; GAMMA PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; POISSON LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT (PSA); TWO-STAGE BAYESIAN MODELING;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032643760     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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