Probabilistic risk analysis for engineered systems

Advances in Decision Analysis: From Foundations to Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 279-301

  Bier, Vicki M ^a   Cox, Louis Anthony ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 65349160114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511611308.016     Document Type: Chapter

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