Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-207/5/b/ii/solution

A pair is informative only when its first observed exit is an event while both members remain at risk; later events after one member has left contribute a factor one. The uninformative pairs are therefore pair 5, with tied events at , and pairs 10, 11, and 13, whose earlier observations are censorings: , , and . At both are in the risk set immediately before time 140, so pair 12 is informative.

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