Separating the contributions of variability and parameter uncertainty in probability distributions

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 187-199

  Sankararaman, S ^a   Mahadevan, S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleatory uncertainty; Distribution parameter uncertainty; Epistemic uncertainty; Family of distributions; Interval data; Sensitivity analysis; Sparse data; Variability

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; FAMILY OF DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERVAL DATA; SPARSE DATA; VARIABILITY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872741164     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.11.024     Document Type: Article

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