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The chapters of this book correspond to a collection of broad themes. Taken together, these themes make up a sizable component of what can be considered to be the topic of modern survival analysis. A feature that we maintain throughout the text is to summarize the salient features of each chapter in a brief section headed “Chapter summary”. Section 1.1 is the first such summary. Following these summaries comes a section headed “Context and motivation”, the purpose of which is to motivate our interest as well as to recall any key notions we may need as an aid in pursuing the topic of the chapter.
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O’Quigley, J. (2021). Introduction. In: Survival Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33439-0_1
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