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Survival analysis, or, more generally speaking, the analysis of timeto-event data, is an important issue in mathematical theory as well as in many fields of applied statistics. To begin with, at least some basic examples concerning waiting times are done at school. When studying Mathematics at university, the discussion of “waiting time distributions” like the geometric or exponential distribution is part of every introductory course to Stochastics.
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Zimmermann, G. (2017). Introduction. In: From Basic Survival Analytic Theory to a Non-Standard Application. BestMasters. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17719-5_1
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