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Quality Engineering Volume 29, 2017 - Issue 3: Special Issue on Reliability Engineering
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Quality Quandaries

Quality quandaries: Combining engineering and statistics to assess the probability of an event

Marion W. VanceWeapons Engineering Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Kristen J. MargeviciusWeapons Engineering Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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M. S. HamadaStatistical Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New MexicoCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 547-550 | Published online: 03 Apr 2017
 
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KEY POINT

This article illustrates how to combine engineering and statistical models and propagate the distributions of model inputs to estimate the probability of an event with uncertainty.

Acknowledgments

We thank Brian Weaver for helpful comments on previous versions of this article.

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