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The analysis of lifetimes is an important topic within biology and medicine in particular but also in reliability analysis with engineering applications. Such data are often highly nonnormally distributed, so that the use of standard linear models is problematic.
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Dalgaard, P. (2008). Survival analysis. In: Introductory Statistics with R. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79054-1_14
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