ABSTRACT
Nondeterministic analysis (NDA) is taken to be the set of technologies that recognize the inherent uncertainties in the model, data, allowables, or any other knowledge that might be applied to predict the reliability of a system or element in the system. Reliability refers to the probability that a design goal can and will be achieved. Given the breadth of NDA, the authors will address a subset of those NDA methods that we deem likely to be most useful in system design.
