Reliability Theory and Death Rates

Reliability theory has been formulated to deal with product failme, and this has been extended to death rates of living organisms (Gavrilov and Gavrilova, 2004). Some of the basic tenets of this theory me  

Weibull power law. It had been observed that the logarithm of materials failme rates increases linearly with the logmithm of age  

Gompertz law of mortality. Originally given for use in the life insurance business, this law states that the logarithm of death rates ino-eases linearly with age  

Fetal influences (see Section 6.6.5) can be the basis for some of the imperfections of redundant human components. So can faulty genetic codes, mutations (see Section 5.3.7), and other environmental 

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