Model validation under epistemic uncertainty

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1232-1241

  Sankararaman, Shankar ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Hypothesis testing; Interval data; Likelihood; Model validation; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERVAL DATA; LIKELIHOOD; MODEL VALIDATION; SPARSE DATA;

NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM VARIABLES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79959596569     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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