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Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientists

Hiromitsu Kumamoto, Ernest J. Henley

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Preface. Basic Risk Concepts. Accident Mechanisms and Risk Management. Probabilistic Risk Assessment. Fault-Tree Construction. Qualitative Aspects of System Analysis. Quantification of Basic Events. Confidence Intervals. Quantitative Aspects of System Analysis. System Quantification for Dependent Events. Human Reliability. Uncertainty Quantification. Legal and Regulatory Risks. Index.

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Key concepts: Fault tree analysis, Probabilistic risk assessment, Probabilistic logic, Risk analysis (engineering), Risk assessment, Risk management, Human reliability, Reliability (semiconductor)