Reliability and Risk: A Bayesian Perspective

by Nozer D. Singpurwalla

We all like to know how reliable and how risky certain situations are, and our increasing reliance on technology has led to the need for more precise assessments than ever before. Such precision has resulted in efforts both to sharpen the notions of risk and reliability, and to quantify them. Quantification is required for normative decision-making, especially decisions pertaining to our safety and wellbeing. Increasingly in recent years Bayesian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470855029
• ISBN13: 9780470855027
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.8"