This may be, e.g., data on the characteristics of structural components, data on properties of materials or on actions. The information may be gathered by measurements or may be found in codes or in specialist literature.
Information also includes results from expert judgements.
One of the engineer's tasks is to analyse, process and combine the different types of information. To facilitate the combining process the computer program CombInfo was developed. In CombInfo two combining methods are implemented which are based on the Bayesian method. The property under consideration is described by a stochastic variable, i.e. by a distribution function and its corresponding parameters. These quantities have to be assessed with the different information.