Negative Event
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A Negative Event is an event that is labeled as negative.
- AKA: Failure Outcome, Adverse Event.
- Context:
- It can be the output of a Failure Function.
- It can (often) refer to a System Failure.
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- Example(s):
- the patient died at 13:48PST on March 4, 2011.
- Tumor Recurrence Event.
- a Negative Random Experiment Outcome.
- a Failed Job Interview (job interview).
- an Adverse Event (AE).
- a System Failure.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: System Bug, Anomaly Event, Completion Event, Mean Time Between Failures, Binomial Trial, Unsatisfiable.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/failure Retrieved:2021-4-25.
- Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a failure what another person considers a success, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.
It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.
- Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a failure what another person considers a success, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.
1998
- (Altman & Bland, 1998) ⇒ Douglas G Altman, and J Martin Bland. (1998). “Statistics Notes: Time to Event (survival) Data.” In: BMJ: British Medical Journal. doi:10.1136/bmj.317.7156.468
- QUOTE: In many medical studies an outcome of interest is the time to an event. Such events may be adverse, such as death or recurrence of a tumour; positive, such as conception or discharge from hospital; or neutral, such as cessation of breast feeding. It is conventional to talk about survival data and survival analysis, regardless of the nature of the event.