It measured whether, and to what extent, women using the condoms had decreasing failure rates over time.
What does FR stand for?
FR stands for Failure Rate
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A study in the May 24 June New England Journal of Medicine compared the contraceptive failure rate among about 7,500 women using long-acting, reversible contraceptives and other methods.
There were 108 failures or recurrences in the surgical group, for an overall surgical failure rate of 3.
SquareTrade, a third party warranty provider that carried out this analysis did so by examining failure rate data from its customers.
Further breakdown of the numbers showed that among the women with a BMI of 25 (within the normal range), a 10-centimeter higher waist measurement was associated with a 15 percent higher heart failure rate; women with a BMI of 30 had an 18 percent increased heart failure rate.
INTRODUCTION The failure rate is historically modelled (Crowe & Feinberg, 2001; Moubray, 1997; Andrews & Moss, 1993) using the traditional bathtub curve shown in Figure 1.
This is done for a general system configuration with either inactive or active redundant components that operate under various failure rate scenarios--144 in all--that don't appear to have been considered explicitly elsewhere.