Envelopes around cumulative distribution functions from interval parameters of standard continuous distributions

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 407-412

  Zhang, Jianzhong ^a   Berleant, D ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Distributed computing; Distribution functions; Gaussian distribution; Monte Carlo methods; Pervasive computing; Random variables; Uncertainty; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM VARIABLES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; INTERVAL PARAMETER; PROBABILITY BOX; SHARP BOUNDARIES; UNCERTAINTY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79952368491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAFIPS.2003.1226819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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