Evaluation of the Reliability of a Water Supply Network from Right-Censored and Left-Truncated Break Data

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2917-2935

  Carrión, Andrés ^a   Solano, Hernando ^b   Gamiz, María Luz ^c   Debón, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ICESI   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cox model; Failure models; Nelson Aalen estimator; Reliability; Survival analysis; Water supply network

Indexed keywords

COX MODEL; FAILURE MODEL; NELSON-AALEN ESTIMATOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY NETWORK;

BIOINFORMATICS; ESTIMATION; PIPE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WATER PIPELINES; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DATA SET; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIPE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77956179227     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9587-y     Document Type: Article

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