Applying bayes linear methods to support reliability procurement decisions

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bedford, Tim ^a   Denning, Richard ^b   Revie, Matthew ^a   Walls, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF DEFENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes linear methods; Reliability procurement; Risk assessment; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650293047     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2008.4925819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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