Investigating the usefulness of the Beta pdf to describe parameters in reliability analyses

2006 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, PMAPS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cross, N ^b   Herman, R ^a,c   Gaunt, C T ^c  

^a IEEE

^b ESKOM   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Probability distributions; Reliability evaluation

Indexed keywords

DESCRIBING FUNCTIONS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

APPLIED (CO); ELECTRICAL POWER; FAILURE RATES; GOODNESS OF FIT (GOF); HAZARD FUNCTIONS; INPUT PARAMETERS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; POWER SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 46149116098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2006.360299     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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