A comparison of methods for representing and aggregating uncertainties involving sparsely sampled random variables - more results

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 447-473

  Romero, Vicente ^a   Mullins, Joshua ^b   Swiler, Laura ^a   Urbina, Angel ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

COMPARISON OF METHODS; DATA UNCERTAINTY; MODEL CALIBRATION; SPARSE DATA; SPARSE SAMPLE; TEST PROBLEM; UNCERTAINTY REPRESENTATION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 84876425264     PISSN: 19463979     EISSN: 19463987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2013-01-0946     Document Type: Article

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