Testing statistical significance of trends in learning, ageing and safety indicators

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1128-1132

  Viertävä, Janne ^a   Vaurio, Jussi K ^b  

^a AF Colenco Ltd   (Switzerland)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Monotonic trends; Non monotonic trends; Nuclear power; Space launch; Statistical testing

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; LAUNCHING; NUCLEAR ENERGY;

MONOTONIC TRENDS; NON-MONOTONIC TRENDS; NUCLEAR POWER; SPACE LAUNCH; STATISTICAL TESTING;

SAFETY TESTING;

EID: 61349095956     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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