Testing branching process estimators of cascading failure with data from a simulation of transmission line outages

Risk Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 650-662

  Dobson, Ian ^a   Kim, Janghoon ^a   Wierzbicki, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackout risk; Branching process; Cascading failure; Electric power transmission system; Infrastructure

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING PROCESS; BRANCHING PROCESS MODEL; CASCADING FAILURES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; FAILURE DATA; GALTON-WATSON BRANCHING PROCESS; INITIAL FAILURE; LINE OUTAGE; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; STANDARD TESTS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATORS; TRANSMISSION LINE;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; INFRASTRUCTURE; MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

EID: 77950840656     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01369.x     Document Type: Article

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