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902:. Failures in multiple parts of a system may be caused by a single fault, particularly random failures due to environmental conditions or aging. An example is when all of the pumps for a fire sprinkler system are located in one room. If the room becomes too hot for the pumps to operate, they will all fail at essentially the same time, from one cause (the heat in the room). Another example is an electronic system wherein a fault in a power supply injects noise onto a supply line, causing failures in multiple subsystems. 43: 839: 734:, but no formal synthesis emerged from their work. Most statisticians of the Shewhart-Deming school take the view that special causes are not embedded in either experience or in current thinking (that's why they come as a surprise; their prior probability has been neglected—in effect, assigned the value zero) so that any subjective probability is doomed to be hopelessly badly 936:
states that, when events of failure of a component are statistically independent, the probabilities of their joint occurrence multiply. Thus, for instance, if the probability of failure of a component of a system is one in one thousand per year, the probability of the joint failure of two of them is
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of historical events. Deming held that the disjoint nature of population and sampling frame was inherently problematic once the existence of special-cause variation was admitted, rejecting the general use of probability and conventional statistics in such situations. He articulated the difficulty as
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Also, if the events of failure of two components are maximally statistically dependent, the probability of the joint failure of both is identical to the probability of failure of them individually. In such a case, the advantages of redundancy are negated. Strategies for the avoidance of common mode
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By "uncertain" knowledge ... I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known for certain from what is only probable. The game of roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty ... The sense in which I am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain, or the
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Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby imposed a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not
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Alpert recognises that there is a temptation to react to an extreme outcome and to see it as significant, even where its causes are common to many situations and the distinctive circumstances surrounding its occurrence, the results of mere chance. Such behaviour has many implications within
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A riot occurs in a certain prison. Officials and sociologists turn out a detailed report about the prison, with a full explanation of why and how it happened here, ignoring the fact that the causes were common to a majority of prisons, and that the riot could have happened
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price of copper and the rate of interest twenty years hence, or the obsolescence of a new invention ... About these matters there is no scientific basis on which to form any calculable probability whatever. We simply do not know!
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A special-cause failure is a failure that can be corrected by changing a component or process, whereas a common-cause failure is equivalent to noise in the system and specific actions cannot be made to prevent the failure.
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argued that, as processes subject to special-cause variation were inherently unpredictable, the usual techniques of probability could not be used to separate special-cause from common-cause variation. He developed the
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But even so, a system can have many common modes of failure. For example, consider the common modes of failure of a RAID1 where two disks are purchased from an online store and installed in a computer:
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one in one million per year, provided that the two events are statistically independent. This principle favors the strategy of the redundancy of components. One place this strategy is implemented is in
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is evident from the experience base. However, new, unanticipated, emergent or previously neglected phenomena (e.g. "new diseases") result in variation outside the historical experience base.
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Because of the very nature of RAID1, both disks will be subjected to the same workload and very closely similar access patterns, stressing them in the same way.
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both discussed the inherent unpredictability of economic systems in their work and used it to criticise the mathematical approach to economics, in terms of
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data from gravestones and thereby calculate, by their existing practice, the probability of a man currently aged 20 years outliving a man aged 60 years.
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The disks are likely to have similar serial numbers, thus they may share any manufacturing flaws affecting production of the same batch.
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The disks are likely to have been shipped at the same time, thus they are likely to have suffered from the same transportation damage.
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management, often leading to ad hoc interventions that merely increase the level of variation and frequency of undesirable outcomes.
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However, in practice, the probability of failure is much higher because they are not statistically independent; for example
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They will be both attached to the same card or motherboard, and driven by the same software, which may have the same bugs.
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The disks are likely to be from the same manufacturer and of the same model, therefore they share the same design flaws.
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As installed both disks are attached to the same power supply, making them vulnerable to the same power supply issues.
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and others. Keynes in particular argued that economic systems did not automatically tend to the equilibrium of
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Defences against Common-Mode Failures in Redundancy Systems – A Guide for Management, Designers and Operators
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This captures the central idea that some variation is predictable, at least approximately in frequency. This
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approach does allow such a probability to be specified. The existence of special-cause variation led
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As installed both disks are in the same case, making them vulnerable to the same overheating events.
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events lying outside the possibility of any description in terms of probability (special causes)
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can be attached to the future occurrence of special cause. One might naively ask whether the
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Bourne, A. J.; Edwards, G. T.; Hunns, D. M.; Poulter, D. R.; Watson, I. A. (January 1981).
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recognised the importance of Keynes's insight and sought to formalise it within a
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Extremely long lab testing turnover time due to switching to a new computer system
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wheel are a good example of common-cause variation. Common-cause variation is the
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New, unanticipated, emergent or previously neglected phenomena within the system;
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has a more specific meaning in engineering. It refers to events which are not
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Poor working conditions, e.g. lighting, noise, dirt, temperature, ventilation
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owing to their agents' inability to predict the future. As he remarked in
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is fundamentally unpredictable in frequency of occurrence or in severity.
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are the two distinct origins of variation in a process, as defined in the
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This is particularly important in safety-critical systems using multiple
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advocated the control chart as a means of assessing a process's state of
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Evidence of some inherent change in the system or our knowledge of it.
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This article is about statistical patterns. For visible patterns, see
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is based on the significance and unpredictability of special causes.
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In economics, this circle of ideas is analysed under the rubric of "
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failures include keeping redundant components physically isolated.
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emphasised the importance of special-cause variation when he wrote:
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Out of the Crisis: Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position
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Special-cause variation always arrives as a surprise. It is the
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channels. If the probability of failure in one subsystem is
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Irregular variation within a historical experience base; and
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Deming, W. E. (1975) On probability as a basis for action,
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to distinguish the two types of variation. Both Deming and
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Variation inherently unpredictable, even probabilistically;
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Epistemics and Economics: A Critique of Economic Doctrines
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Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control
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Lack of significance in individual high or low values.
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Variation outside the historical experience base; and
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product
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