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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 20.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2014 Nov 6;34(4):652–663. doi: 10.1002/sim.6356

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Pictorial representation of the time to skeletal fracture as a first hitting time for a composite stochastic process consisting of a stream of random shocks superimposed on a progressive degradation process for skeletal strength.