Confidence and risk

Structural Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 98-104

  Reid, Stuart G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidence; Epistemology; Probabilistic risk assessment; Prototype testing; Risk; Structural safety

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PROBABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RISKS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAFETY TESTING;

CONFIDENCE; EPISTEMOLOGY; PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; PROTOTYPE TESTING; STRUCTURAL SAFETY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 56949095648     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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