Patent ID: 7489881

Claim:
A failure prevention diagnosis support system comprising: an acquiring portion that acquires internal information about an internal state of an image forming apparatus; a storage portion that stores one or a plurality of logistic regression models that define an estimate value of a regression coefficient through a logistic regression analysis using the internal information obtained when the image forming apparatus is in a failed state and in a normal state, the one or the plurality of logistic regression models having an objective variable that is a binary variable representing one of a failed state and a normal state of the image forming apparatus, the one or the plurality of logistic regression models having an explanatory variable that is the internal information about the image forming apparatus or a value obtained from the internal information; and a controller that performs a control operation to select a logistic regression model from the one or the plurality of the logistic regression models stored in the storage portion in accordance with the image forming apparatus, and to calculate risk degrees as objective variables that are indicators of failure degrees in the image forming apparatus by assigning the internal information acquired by the acquiring portion or the value obtained from the internal information to the selected logistic regression model.