Network reliability and Borel's paradox

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 213-218

  Singpurwalla, Nozer D ^a   Swift, Andrew ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert testimonies; Identical components; Probability protocols; Retrospective conditioning; Unanticipated knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035619216     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001317098202     Document Type: Article

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