Probabilistic risk analysis : foundations and methods

Probabilistic risk analysis aims to quantify the risk caused by high technology installations. Increasingly, such analyses are being applied to a wider class of systems in which problems such as lack of data, complexity of the systems, uncertainty about consequences, make a classical statistical ana...

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Auteurs principaux : Bedford Tim (Auteur), Cooke Roger Marvin (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Probabilistic risk analysis : foundations and methods / Tim Bedford,... and Roger Cooke,...
Publié : Cambridge, UK, New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press , 2001, cop. 2001
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-393 p.)
Sujets :
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Probabilistic risk analysis
  • Part II. Theoretical Issues and Background
  • 2. What is uncertainty?
  • 3. Probabilistic methods
  • 4. Statistical inference
  • 5. Weibull analysis
  • Part III. System Analysis and Quantification
  • 6. Fault and event trees
  • 7. Fault trees - analysis
  • 8. Dependent failures
  • 9. Reliability data bases
  • 10. Expert opinion
  • 11. Human reliability
  • 12. Software reliability
  • Part IV. Uncertainty Modeling and Risk Measurement
  • 13. Decision theory
  • 14. Influence diagrams and belief nets
  • 15. Project risk management
  • 16. Probabilistic inversion
  • 17. Uncertainty analysis
  • 18. Risk measurement and regulation