The binomial failure rate mixture model for common cause failure data from the nuclear industry

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-61

  Kvam, Paul H ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation; Probabilistic risk assessment; Shock model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039986329     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00097     Document Type: Article

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