Re: What is survival analysis

On Dec 17, 11:08 am, water <waterloo2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In a book,I see "By failure time data, we mean data that concern
positive random variables
representing times to certain events".

What does it mean?

Can you recommand some elementary or introductory book about survival
analysis.
Thanks!

Here are a couple links that might be useful.

http://www.bmj.com/statsbk/12.dtl
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stsurvan.html

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