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Figure 8 - Pattern E
Pattern F
This is often referred to as the infant mortality curve and accounts for approximately 68% of all items.
It has two distinct phases:
• High conditional probability of failure
o A period where the conditional probability of failure begins high but decreases toward
a constant level
• Constant probability of failure
o A period where random failure is expected but the probability of failure remains low
and does not vary over time
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