Engineering index: An engineering certification/qualification metric

Military Operations Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 27-44

  Booker, Jane M ^a   Ross, Timothy ^b   Hamada, Michael ^c   Reardon, Brian ^c   Dolin, Ron ^c   Faust, Cheryll L ^c   Najera, Lorenzo ^c  

^a Booker Scientific   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certification; Margin; Performance requirements; Qualification; Reliability; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845657475     PISSN: 02755823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5711/morj.11.2.27     Document Type: Article

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