Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/iii/paper-207/4/b/i/solution

The professors enter observation only when elected. Anyone dying before election cannot appear, so the birth-to-death sample is left-truncated at varying, outcome-related ages and is not an inception cohort from birth. Every listed professor was elected before age and survived to , so all six are under observation from the common origin age . The data can therefore estimate survival from age without delayed entry.

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