A method for fitting probability distributions to engineering properties of rock masses using Legendre orthogonal polynomials

Structural Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-343

  Li, X B ^a   Gong, F Q ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cumulative distribution function; Legendre orthogonal polynomial; Probabilistic density function; Rock random variable; Sample moments

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; ENGINEERING PROPERTIES; FITTING PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TESTS; LEGENDRE ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIAL; OBSERVED DATUM; PROBABILISTIC DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RANDOM SAMPLES; RELATIVE ERRORS; ROCK MASS; ROCK VARIABLES; SAMPLE MOMENTS; STANDARD METHODS; STATISTICAL INFERENCES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; ROCKS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 64249103991     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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