The first two mechanisms are standard independent, noninformative censoring. The third relabels the event time itself and therefore is not independent censoring for the original latent event time; it is more naturally interpreted as assigning a cause in a <competing risks model>. The detailed calculations follow in the three subparts.

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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2026 / iii / Paper 207 / 4 / c / Solution

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A competing risks model assigns cause-specific hazards to mutually exclusive event types.


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