A failure prevention diagnosis support system includes: 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; 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.