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Gill, R.D. (1994). Lectures on survival analysis. In: Bernard, P. (eds) Lectures on Probability Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1581. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0073873

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