Talk:Survival analysis
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This article needs some re-organization, for example references to external life in the section survival function does not add to the discussion. The section about fitting parameters does not talk about fitting per se but rather about different forms of censoring. I think there needs to be a section on non-parametric techiques like the Kaplan Meier, Nelson Aalen or life table methods added and also a reference to semi-parametric methods like the Cox proportional hazards regression model as well as fully parametric models based on say exponential or weibull models. WT
The common distributions used in survival analysis would be like the exponential or weibull distributions. The gaussian and logistic distributions are not used for the reason that their support is on the whole real line and it makes more sense to have non-negative values as a distribution for time unless we're using truncated distributions. WT
