bath-tub curve

Japanese: bath-tub curve(英語表記)bathtubcurve
bath-tub curve

...For example, if 100 products are used for a year and one breaks down in a month, the failure rate for that month is calculated as 1/(100 x 1 month) = 1%. If human mortality rates are plotted against age, they form the shape of a Western-style bathtub, and this curve is called a bathtub curve (see figure). This curve consists of three periods: the infant mortality period, when mortality rates decrease; the adulthood period, when mortality rates remain roughly constant; and the elderly period, when mortality rates increase with age. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "bath-tub curve" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…たとえば使い始めて1年後の製品100個を1月使用して1個故障すれば,その1月の故障率は1/(100×1月)=1%と計算される。人間の死亡率を年齢に対して図にしてみると洋式の浴槽の形になり,この曲線をバスタブ曲線bath‐tub curveという(図参照)。この曲線は,三つの時期,すなわち死亡率が減少する幼児死亡期,ほぼ一定の成人期,老化で上昇する老人期の三つからなっている。…

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