Advances in data combination, analysis and collection for system reliability assessment

Statistical Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 514-531

  Wilson, Alyson G ^a   Graves, Todd L ^a   Hamada, Michael S ^a   Reese, C Shane ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Bayesian network; Biased data; Complex system; Count data; Degradation data; Fault tree; Flowgraph; Genetic algorithm; Lifetime data; Logistic regression; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis algorithm; Multilevel data; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249308477     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/088342306000000439     Document Type: Article

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