Risk importance measures

Springer Series in Reliability Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue , 2011, Pages 151-196

  Zio, Enrico ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

IMPORTANCE MEASURE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84951779068     PISSN: 16147839     EISSN: 2196999X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-470-8_6     Document Type: Chapter

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