Viability or viable may refer to:

Biology, medicine or ecology

* Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce *

Fetal viability Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. Viability depends upon factors such as birth weight, gestational age, and the availability of advanced medical care. In low-income countries, more than 90% of extr ...

, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus *

Genetic viability Genetic viability is the ability of the genes present to allow a cell, organism or population to survive and reproduce. The term is generally used to mean the chance or ability of a population to avoid the problems of inbreeding. Less commonly gen ...

, chance of a population of plants or animals to avoid the problems of inbreeding *

Minimum viable population Minimum viable population (MVP) is a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild. This term is commonly used in the fields of biology, ecology, and conservation biology. MVP refers to the smallest possible si ...

, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild *

Population viability analysis Population viability analysis (PVA) is a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology. It is traditionally defined as the process that determines the probability that a population will go extinct within a given ...

, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology * Viable count, of viable cells

Business

Viability study Viability or viable may refer to: Biology, medicine or ecology * Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce * Fetal viability, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uter ...

, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business *

Minimum viable product A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development. A focus on releasing an MVP means that developers potentially avoid ...

, in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature

Other uses

* Viable Paradise, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard *

Viable system model The viable system model (VSM) is a model of the organizational structure of any autonomous system capable of producing itself. It is an implementation of viable system theory. At the biological level, this model is correspondent to autopoiesis. A ...

, a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system * Viable system theory, a modelling approach that enables complex strategic and operative business and financial systems to be modelled and explored. * Viability theory, an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state

Biology, medicine or ecology

Business

Other uses

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