probability of failure
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probability
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌprɒb.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌprɑː.bəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the level of possibility of something happening or ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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He presents a technique where clans are formed as part of a self-interested activity to increase local utility or decrease theprobabilityoffailure.
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In this case, the best action is to attempt to repair the component with the smallest ratio of repair cost to priorprobabilityoffailure.
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Conversely, the long-term yield of the surviving crop increases as theprobabilityoffailureincreases.
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Moreover, as this depends upon theprobabilityoffailureof component and systems, and can, therefore, be applied to the existing designs only.
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So, an overall unweighted estimate of theprobabilityoffailurefor the country cannot be obtained from this study.
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As a separate but related issue, new markets face a higherprobabilityoffailure.
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For a given component the model determined randomly for each run of the model whether failure occurred (yes or no), taking into account theprobabilityoffailure.
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Weather and price variability contribute unequally to farm risk and to theprobabilityoffailure17.
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We calculated theprobabilityoffailureto detect a single case of infection if the viruses were present with prevalences similar to those observed elsewhere in the world.
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A value of > 1 implies that theprobabilityoffailureincreases as the consolidation goes on; a value of = 1 means that time has no effect.
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Sociological analyses of intraorganizational competition usually use theorems like the one described above to justify estimating the quadratic effect of the number of firms ('density') on theprobabilityoffailure.
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The authority now predicts a highprobabilityoffailureto meet performance standards.
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Conditioned on that partial state, theprobabilityoffailureis 0.25.
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To apply the method of conditional probabilities, we need to extend the argument to bound the "conditional"probabilityoffailureas the rounding step proceeds.
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The material or component can be re-designed to reduce theprobabilityoffailureand to make it more robust against variation.
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Theprobabilityoffailurewas obtained through the multiplication of each of the failure probabilities along the path under consideration.
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One of the first approaches employed approximation concepts to integrate theprobabilityoffailure.
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