On the application of near accident data to risk analysis of major accidents

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 126, Issue , 2014, Pages 116-125

  Khakzad, Nima ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a,b   Paltrinieri, Nicola ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c SINTEF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hierarchical Bayesian analysis; Major accident; Multinomial distribution; Offshore blowout; Precursor data; Probabilistic risk analysis

Indexed keywords

BLOWOUTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MAJOR ACCIDENTS; MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PRECURSOR DATA; PROBABILISTIC RISK ANALYSIS;

RISK ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894279786     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2014.01.015     Document Type: Article

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