| Article ID: | iaor20022765 |
| Country: | South Africa |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 47 |
| End Page Number: | 62 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Journal: | Orion |
| Authors: | Kohlas Jrg, Anrig Bernhard, Bissig Roman |
Reliability and diagnostic are in general two problems discussed separately. Yet the two problems are in fact closely related to each other. Here, this relation is considered in the simple case of modular systems. We show how the computation of reliability and diagnostic can efficiently be done within the same Bayesian network induced by the modularity of the structure function of the system.