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ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2016/iii/paper-207/6/b

This is administrative censoring. Under the usual assumption that entry calendar time is independent of the subsequent event time, it is an example of independent censoring, not informative censoring: the planned study closure, rather than a patient's prognosis, determines the available follow-up. Uniform entry by itself does not prove that assumption; if entry date is associated with prognosis, independence must instead be justified conditionally on the relevant covariates. The calculations below use independence.

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