Estimation of common cause factors from systems with different numbers of channels

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-25

  Hokstad, Per ^a   Maria, Alexandre ^b   Tomis, Pierre ^c  

^a SINTEF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY   (Norway)

^b Amadeus ^*  (France)

^c EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Common cause failures; Data mapping; Estimation; Multiple beta factor model

Indexed keywords

COMMON CAUSE FAILURES; DATA MAPPING; MULTIPLE BETA FACTOR MODEL;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 33644894449     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.858095     Document Type: Article

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