Calculating nuclear accident probabilities from empirical frequencies

Environment Systems and Decisions

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 249-258

  Ha Duong, Minh ^a   Journé, Venance ^a  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Frequencies; Industrial history; INES scale; Nuclear accidents; Nuclear power

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84902262687     PISSN: 21945403     EISSN: 21945411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-014-9499-0     Document Type: Article

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