Sensitivity analysis with mixture of epistemic and aleatory uncertainties

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2337-2349

  Guo, Jia ^a,b   Du, Xiaoping ^a,b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTIES; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV DISTANCE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34948832552     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.28707     Document Type: Article

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