Probabilistic Enhancement of Classical Robustness Margins: A Class of Nonsymmetric Distributions

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1990-1994

  Lagoa, Constantino M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional robustness; Monte Carlo simulation; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VECTORS;

DISTRIBUTIONAL ROBUSTNESS;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 0345258442     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2003.819284     Document Type: Article

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