Patent Document ID: 20070214027
Application ID: 11681540
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for evaluating at least one of a device, an application and a method for establishing a technical system such as a power plant, with an assessment carried out based on costs for risks, comprising: determining risk costs causes; assessing possible risk costs depending on risk costs causes, assigning risk costs values to intuitive risk costs assessment numbers for possible risk costs, respectively, representing said assigning in a risk costs to risk costs assessment number coordinate system having a risk costs axis with a decadic logarithmic scale and a risk costs assessment number axis with a linear scale; assuming that values of the possible risk costs have errors randomly and stochastically distributed, in particular normally distributed; determining a variance and an expected value for the possible risk costs based on a probability to determine actual risk cost values to which are assigned intuitive risk cost assessment numbers, respectively; implementing regression of the intuitive risk cost assessment numbers on a straight line by an indirect linear regression using a non-linear regression on a straight line in an intermediate diagram; determining actual overall risk costs from a sum of the actual risk costs by a regression line of the actual risk cost values; and assigning a probability such that the sum of the actual risk costs remains below an upper limit, with an assumption that the risk costs sum exhibits a probability distribution, in particular a normal distribution, such that quantiles are calculated on this basis.