Bayesian networks in reliability

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-108

  Langseth, Helge ^a   Portinale, Luigi ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Causality; Modelling; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CAUSALITY; MODELING FRAMEWORK; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 33748310590     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.11.037     Document Type: Article

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