On the use of uncertainty importance measures in reliability and risk analysis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-133

  Aven, T ^a   Nokland T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Birnbaums measure; Chance distributions; Improvement potential; Reliability and risk; Subjective probabilities; Uncertainty importance measure

Indexed keywords

BIRNBAUMS MEASURE; CHANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMPROVEMENT POTENTIAL; SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITIES; UNCERTAINTY IMPORTANCE MEASURE;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 70350572885     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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