Potential based clouds in robust design optimization

Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 225-238

  Fuchs, Martin ^a   Neumaier, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clouds; Confidence regions; Design optimization; Potential clouds; Robust design; Uncertainty modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008770491     PISSN: 15598608     EISSN: 15598616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15598608.2009.10411922     Document Type: Article

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