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This paper presents an overview of current understanding of several important issues regarding estimation of parameters of common cause failure models. The presentation is primarily based on the treatment of the subject in a two volume document on procedures for treating common cause failures in safety and reliability studies (Reference 1). The two main topics discussed are: (1) event data classification and screening, and (2) parameter estimation. Techniques for developing a pseudo plant-specific database from generic data are discussed and various sources of uncertainties are investigated.
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Mosleh, A. (1989). Estimation of Parameters of Common Cause Failure Models. In: Amendola, A. (eds) Advanced Seminar on Common Cause Failure Analysis in Probabilistic Safety Assessment. ISPRA Courses on Reliability and Risk Analysis, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0629-2_12
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