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Reliability block diagrams

Author: Jean-Pierre SIGNORET

Publication date: February 10, 2017

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4. Static probabilistic calculations

4.1 General considerations on probabilistic calculations

Figure 10 uses Venn diagrams to illustrate the main concepts for manipulating events:

  • certain event: Ω. It represents the union of all events that can occur;

  • event A: part of Ω ;

  • event A— complementary to A in Ω. So A∪A—=Ω...

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