Probability and Risk Analysis An Introduction for Engineers /

• Main Authors: Rychlik, Igor (Author), Rydén, Jesper (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Probabilities.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Civil engineering.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Civil Engineering.

This book presents notions and ideas from the foundations of a statistical treatment of risks. Bayesian methods are frequently used in that area, hence a reasonable proportion of the presentation is devoted to such approaches. Modern statistical tools, namely Poisson regression, analysis of deviance...