Doubly censored data 2026-09-24
Doubly censored data leave an event known only to lie outside an observation interval, without revealing whether it occurred before observation began or after observation ended.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 207 6 a v Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The bus may have arrived before observation began or after observation ended. Its compatible event set is , so, with endpoint conventions chosen to match whether arrivals exactly at 2 or 20 would be seen, the contribution isThis is doubly censored data, because neither the side nor the event time is known.