Approximating the risk for time-to-failure models through using statistics of extremes

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-81

  Johnson Payton, Lori R ^a   Haimes, Yacov Y ^a   Lambert, James H ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PARTITIONED MULTIOBJECTIVE RISK METHODS (PMRM); STATISTICS OF EXTREMES; TIME TO FAILURE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032651608     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00075-1     Document Type: Article

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