Introduction
In this chapter, I discuss several topics that are common to many different methods of survival analysis:
censoring, a nearly universal feature of survival data.
common ways of representing the probability distribution of event times, especially the survivor function and the hazard function.
choice of origin in the measurement of time, a tricky but important issue that is rarely discussed in the literature on survival analysis.
basic data structure required for most computer programs that perform survival analysis.
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