Journal article
Statistical Foundation for Decision Making in Nuclear Safety–Related Problems Using Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty Analyses
Abstract
The response of a complex physical system is often evaluated by a tolerance interval for a percentile of the distribution of a variable of interest that is estimated by best-estimate codes. This tolerance interval is used as a test statistic to make decisions about the behavior of the system in the context of the specific safety issue. The most common methods to determine such tolerance intervals are order statistics methods leading to the …
Authors
Sermer P; Hoppe FM; Pun-Quach D; Weaver KR; Olive C; Cheng I
Journal
Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 178, No. 2, pp. 119–155
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
October 2014
DOI
10.13182/nse13-75
ISSN
0029-5639