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Subset simulation is a method to compute small failure probabilities encountered in reliability analysis of engineering systems. The basic idea is to express the failure probability as a product of larger conditional value probabilities by introducing intermediate failure events.

References

Estimation of small failure probabilities in high dimensions by Subset Simulation. Siu-Kui and James Beck. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 16 (2001).

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