Application of classification trees in the sensitivity analysis of probabilistic model results

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-129

  Mishra, Srikanta ^a   Deeds, Neil E ^a   RamaRao, Banda S ^b  

^a INTERA Incorporated   (United States)

^b Fromatome ANP DE and S   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification trees; Probabilistic models; Sensitivity analyses

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION TREES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 0037303173     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00222-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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