A review of expertise and judgment processes for risk estimation

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2007, ESREL 2007 - Risk, Reliability and Societal Safety

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1901-1907

  Boring, R L ^a,b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OECD HALDEN REACTOR PROJECT   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EXPERT ELICITATIONS; EXPERT OPINIONS; HARDWARE FAILURES; HUMAN ERRORS; OPERATIONAL DATUMS; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATES; RISK ESTIMATIONS; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 56149115931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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