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Failure rate

Known as: Mean Distance Between Failure, Hazard function, DFR 
Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed in failures per unit of time. It is often denoted by the… 
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Determining and understanding offshore wind turbine failure rates and resource requirement for repair are vital for modelling and… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
Whilst working on an upcoming meta-analysis that synthesized fifty years of research on predictors of programming performance, we… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
The exponential and Rayleigh are the two most commonly used distributions for analyzing lifetime data. These distributions have… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Distributions with an increasing generalized failure rate (IGFR) have useful applications in pricing and supply chain contracting… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
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  • 2005
  • Corpus ID: 16026717
It can be argued that the successful management of change is crucial to any organisation in order to survive and succeed in the… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
This paper examines the impact venture capital can have on the development of new firms. Using a hand-collected data set on… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
PREFACE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES What is Epidemiology? Case Studies: The Work of Doll and Hill Populations and Samples Measuring… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Abstract Consider a study whose design calls for the study subjects to be followed from enrollment (time t = 0) to time t = T, at… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
It seems only fair that the reader know what biases, if any, inform the summary remarks I plan to make. Equity will be the focus…