Aleatory or epistemic? Does it matter?

Structural Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-112

  Kiureghian, Armen Der ^a   Ditlevsen, Ove ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aleatory; Epistemic; Ergodicity; Parameter uncertainty; Predictive models; Probability distribution choice; Statistical dependence; Systems; Time variant reliability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALEATORY; EPISTEMIC; ERGODICITY; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTIVE MODELS; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; SYSTEMS; TIME-VARIANT RELIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 56949085602     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2008.06.020     Document Type: Article

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