Research Article

Probabilistic Analysis for Structures with Hybrid Uncertain Parameters

Table 1

Monotonicity analysis of expectation and variance for commonly used PDFs.

Distribution typeProbability density function (PDF)Distribution parameterExpectationPartial derivative of the expectationVariancePartial derivative of the variance

Weibull, ,
Lognormal, ,
Normal, ,
Type I extreme value (Gumbel), ,
Type II extreme value (Frechet),
Uniform
Exponential,