Validation and error estimation of computational models

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 91, Issue 10-11, 2006, Pages 1390-1397

  Rebba, Ramesh ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a   Huang, Shuping ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Error estimation; Sensitivity; Uncertainty; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; ERROR ESTIMATION; VALIDATION; VERIFICATION;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745727483     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.11.035     Document Type: Article

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