The engineering risk-analysis method and some applications

Advances in Decision Analysis: From Foundations to Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 302-324

  Paté Cornell, M Elisabeth ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 65349196481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511611308.017     Document Type: Chapter

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