Solution

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Under independent censoring conditional on the modelled covariates, an observed event contributes , and a right-censored observation contributes . Factors from the censoring distribution may be omitted when they contain no survival-model parameters. The survival likelihood and log-likelihood are therefore
Censored individuals still contribute their observed exposure through ; they are not deleted from the analysis.

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