Treating Epistemic Uncertainty Using Bootstrapping Selection of Input Distribution Model for Confidence-Based Reliability Assessment

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Moon, Min Yeong ^a   Choi, K K ^a   Gaul, Nicholas ^b   Lamb, David ^c  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b Advanced Biomedical Informatics Group   (United States)

^c US Army Research Development and Engineering Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WELL TESTING;

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; INPUT DISTRIBUTIONS; MODELING SIMULATION; PHYSICAL OUTPUT; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION-BASED METHOD;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85059889909     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4042149     Document Type: Article

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