Adjustment of a Dirichlet prior distribution for multiple greek letter parameters estimation in Bayesian approach at EDF

International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis 2011, PSA 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 207-220

  Nguyen, Thi Thuy Linh ^a   Bérenguer, Christophe ^a   Fouladirad, Mitra ^a   Bonnevialle, Anne Marie ^b  

^a University of Troyes   (France)

^b Electricité de France R and D ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Bayes; CCF; Dirichlet; MGL; Prior distribution

Indexed keywords

BAYES; CCF; DIRICHLET; MGL; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; RATING; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 80051969882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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