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survival analysis
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survival analysis
Statistics Assessment of the amount of time that a person or population lives after a particular intervention or condition


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By contrast, for the Tobit model, a standard MLE technique to estimate equations with censored dependent variables, the consistency hinges on the assumption of normally distributed and homoskedastic errors.
Tobit analysis, which explicitly accounts for a censored dependent variable, eliminates this source of estimation bias.
 
 
 
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