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WBA starts with the question "What is the accident or accidents in question?". In most cases this is easy to define. Next comes an iterative process to determine causes. When causes for the accident have been identified, formal tests are applied to all potential cause-effect relations. This process
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Only if for all causal relations the CT is positive and for all sets of causes to their effects the CST is positive the WBG is correct: each cause must be necessary (CT), and the totality of causes must be sufficient (CST): nothing is omitted (CST: the listed causes are sufficient), and nothing is
245: 225:. The CT asks the following question: "If the cause had not been, could the effect have happened?". The CT proves or disproves that a cause is a necessary causal factor for an effect. Only if it is necessary for the cause in question then it is clearly contributing to the effect. 232:– The CST asks the question: "Will an effect always happen if all attributed causes happen?". The CST aims at deciding whether a set of causes are sufficient for an effect to happen. The missing of causes can thus be identified. 147:. It is independent of application domain and has been used to analyse, among others, aviation-, railway-, marine-, and computer-related accidents and incidents. It is mainly used as an after-the-fact (or 326: 53: 317: 100: 72: 119: 79: 386: 86: 57: 68: 376: 222: 46: 249: 202: 198: 381: 366: 330: 266: 182: 175: 93: 296: 271: 218: 194:
can be iterated for the newfound causes, and so on, until a satisfactory result has been achieved.
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Analysing Aviation Accidents Using WB-Analysis - an Application of Multimodal Reasoning
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At each node (factor), each contributing cause (related factor) must have been
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used to represent interdependencies within a system. The WBG depicts
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to cause the accident, and the totality of causes must have been
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where the nodes of the graph are factors. Directed edges denote
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Method for accident analysis to determine causal relationships
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Why-Because analysis

verification
improve this article
adding citations to reliable sources
"Why–because analysis"
news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
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accident analysis
graph theory
a posteriori
falsifiability
causal notation
causal relations
directed acyclic graph
cause–effect
relations
necessary
sufficient
David Lewis
counterfactuals

Herald of Free Enterprise
Accident
Cause–effect graph
Fault tree analysis

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