On reliability growth models using Kolmogorov-Smirnov bounds

International Journal of Performability Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-19

  Utkin, Lev V ^a   Coolen, Frank P A ^b  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imprecise probabilities; Learning problem; Lower and upper probability distributions; Reliability; Risk functional; Software reliability growth models

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955121839     PISSN: 09731318     EISSN: 29938341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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