fr: Failure rate (lambda)

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frR Documentation

Failure rate (lambda)

Description

Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed in failures per unit of time. This function computes failure rate given failure counts and total operating times.

Usage

fr(failures, totalTime)

Arguments

failures

Numeric scalar or numeric vector of failure counts (non-negative).

totalTime

Numeric scalar or numeric vector of total operating times.

Value

Numeric scalar: failures per unit time (failures / totalTime).

Examples

fr(75, 5000)
fr(c(10,5), c(1000,2000))

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