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Emphasis on determining criticality rather than the cost of system failures.
Applies some Bayesian statistics (probabilities of component failures and those
thereby causing given system level failures)~\cite{bayesfrequentist}.
thereby causing given system level failures).
Applying Bayesian statistics to failure analysis, suffers the
problem that correlation does not imply causation~\cite{bayesfrequentist}.
However, correlation is evidence for causation, and maybe the only evidence to hand
and this is the justification behind its use.
A history of the usage and development of FMECA may be found in~\cite{FMECAresearch}.