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Failure Rate<br />

The failure rate of a system (or system component) is the mean<br />

number of failures within a given period of time<br />

The failure rate is a random variable (gives us the probability that<br />

a system, which has been operating over time t, fails over the next<br />

time unit)<br />

The failure rate of a component normally varies with time: λ(t)

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