Talk:Failure rate

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We should make Failure rate a disambiguation page and move this page to hazard rate. Failure rate is often used confusingly (but not strictly speaking incorrectly!) to refer to either (a) hazard rate or (b) rate of occurrence of failures (ROCoF). The former belongs to parts reliability, the latter to repairable systems reliability. This article is about (a) but might propagate the confusion. Repairable Systems Reliability by Ascher & Feingold puts the matter clearly.

The article also duplicates a lot of stuff that is in survival analysis. I suggest taking the detailed stuff out of survival analysis and putting it into the hazard rate article.Cutler 15:37, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

There are several related pages that need to be better organized and cross-referenced: Failure rate, MTBF, Survival analysis, Bathtub curve, Infant mortality and probably some others. I plan to work on this in the near future, starting with merging MTBF with this article. Any comments on the best way to reorganize these pages would be appreciated. Also - nice to see that this page was referenced by the media!

Hazard rate already redirects to this article. DFH 19:02:27, 2005-09-01 (UTC)