Mean and variance bounds and propagation for ill-specified random variables

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 494-506

  Langewisch, Andrew T ^a   Choobineh, F Fred ^b  

^a Nebraska   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FUZZY NUMBERS; ILL SPECIFIED RANDOM VARIABLES; OPTIMAL MEAN; RISK ANALYSIS; VARIANCE BOUNDS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 3142738787     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2004.826316     Document Type: Article

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