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With right censoring, an event has not occurred by the last observation time , so the data establish only . One records and , distinguishing an observed event from a censored exit. A business still operating at the follow-up deadline is administratively right-censored. Its observed age is a lower bound on its lifetime, not its eventual closure age. Standard survival analysis requires suitable independent censoring, possibly conditional on the fitted covariates.

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