Formulating informative, data-based priors for failure probability estimation in reliability analysis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 490-502

  Guikema, Seth D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian probability; Informative priors; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BAYESIAN PROBABILITY; INFORMATIVE PRIORS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ESTIMATION; RISK ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 33845675628     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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