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FAULT TREES
Sensitivity of estimated failure probabilities to problem representation
DECISION RESEARCH, A BRANCH OF PERCEPTRONIES EUGENE, OREGON
© 1978 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC.
Abstract
Fault trees represent problem situations by organizing “things that could go wrong” into functional categories. Such trees are essential devices for analyzing and evaluating the fallibility of complex systems. They follow many different formats, sometimes by design, other times inadvertently. The present study examined the effects of varying three aspects of fault tree structure on the evaluation of a fault tree for the event “a car fails to start.” The fault trees studied had four to eight ...
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