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A critical look at the bathtub curve
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This paper addresses some of the fundamental assumptions underlying the bathtub curve. It is shown to be unlikely that any practical hazard function is decreasing near zero. Great care should be taken in interpreting the hazard function, particularly in applying quality-control practices, such as burn-in or environmental-stress-screening to manufactured products.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Klutke, G., Kiessler, P. C., & Wortman, M. A.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Reliability
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 125-129
- ISSN
- 0018-9529 (ISSN-L)
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- W2135966495
- Cited by
- 348
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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