Re: Time to failure problem

Hi OMU.

What im trying to do it to simulate a population of patients at time=0 and with a starting age ~N(70,7.3) and simulate for each patient, given their simulated starting age how long it takes for them to have an event. I am further assuming that each patient lives to 100.

I know that i could test each patient annually to see if an event occurs using the annual probability of an event, but this is going to be part of much larger, more complicated simlation and i want to be able to take a patient aged 70 say and jump straight to the year they have an event with the minimum amount of calculations.

Your help and interest is most appreciated.

Cheers

Nic
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