Imprecise reliability assessment when the type of the probability distribution of the random variables is unknown

International Journal of Reliability and Safety

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-157

  Nikolaidis, Efstratios ^a   Mourelatos, Zissimos P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b Oakland University   (United States)

Author keywords

Importance sampling; Imprecise probability; Probabilistic re analysis; PRRA

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMISATION PROBLEMS; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; IMPRECISE RELIABILITIES; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PRRA; REANALYSIS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79953313232     PISSN: 1479389X     EISSN: 14793903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRS.2011.039300     Document Type: Article

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