Best seen as an extension of the methods of survival analysis which are statistical methods that handle correctly “right censored” data where an event, such as death, going blind or death or developing any irreversible condition, will only happen once to any one person (or animal or part of engineering machinery!) Read on below!
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Best to read the survival analysis entry next. In there I say “These methods can apply to any “once only” event, not just death. Frailty analysis is a related set of methods to handle censored data where the event can happen more than once, e.g. having a psychological crisis, having a baby, self-harming. Both methods are seriously underused in research into psychological issues which is so often short term or with only very limited follow-up period. Sadly, this partly reflects how little money is spent on psychological issues and therapies.”
That’s it! (Well, there’s much more to it than this but that’s enough for now!)
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Censored data & censoring
Survival analysis
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Not mentioned in the OMbook.
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None yet.
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First created 8.v.24.
