The "Bayesian Anomaly" and its practical mitigation

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-173

  Philipson, Lloyd L ^a  

^a Palos Verdes   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous inconsistency; Bayes inference; System failure probability

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

ANOMALOUS INCONSISTENCY; BAYES INFERENCE; SYSTEM FAILURE PROBABILITY;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 41449095515     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.916870     Document Type: Article

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