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• Failure rate — is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. It is often denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda) and is important in reliability engineering. The failure rate of a system usually… …   Wikipedia

• failure-rate curve — See bath tub curve …   Big dictionary of business and management

• bath-tub curve — failure rate curve A graph, having the outline shape of a bath tub, in which the failure rate of a piece of machinery is plotted against time (on the horizontal axis). The graph has three phases: a burn in or start up phase, during which faults… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• Bathtub curve — The bathtub curve is widely used in reliability engineering, although the general concept is also applicable to humans. It describes a particular form of the hazard function which comprises three parts:*The first part is a decreasing failure rate …   Wikipedia

• Phillips curve — The Phillips curve is a historical inverse relation between the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation in an economy. Stated simply, the lower the unemployment in an economy, the higher the rate of increase in wages paid to labor in that… …   Wikipedia

• Stress–strain curve — During testing of a material sample, the stress–strain curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between stress, derived from measuring the load applied on the sample, and strain, derived from measuring the deformation of the sample …   Wikipedia

• Market failure — is a concept within economic theory wherein the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient. That is, there exists another conceivable outcome where a market participant may be made better off without making someone else… …   Wikipedia

• Vitality curve — A vitality curve is a leadership construct, assigning credit with certain proportions of the production to proportions of a producing population. For example, there is an often cited 20/80 rule or the Pareto principle / Law of the Vital Few… …   Wikipedia

• The Bell Curve — For other uses, see Bell curve (disambiguation). The Bell Curve   …   Wikipedia

• Demand curve — An example of a demand curve shifting In economics, the demand curve is the graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity, and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase at that given price. It is …   Wikipedia

• Cardiac function curve — A cardiac function curve is a graph showing the relationship between right atrial pressure (x axis) and cardiac output (y axis). Shape of curve It shows a steep relationship at relatively low filling pressures and a plateau, where further stretch …   Wikipedia