Fussell-Vesely Alternative Importance Measure
SAE ARP4761 provides an alternative Fussell-Vesely importance measure, which is calculated and shown regardless of the FTA calculation type. Each value in the Fussell-Vesely Alternative column provides a relative indication on how much a primary event is contributing to the top level event (Pf). This alternative method of calculating the Fussell-Vesely (FV) importance measure uses the following formula: