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Right on! Great feedback! I was also thinking about using competing risks to introduce company foldings.

Also parametric modeling as you mention. Try out the Gamma and see which of the family it divines.



Yeah, you could do competing risks. I see yclist.com does distinguish between 'dead' and 'exit', although your CSV doesn't. You can use 'comprsk', I remember it as being no harder to use than 'survival' when I tried it out briefly for https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20survival . Any competing-risks model going to be very imprecise, though, since if you can't estimate the overall survival curve very precisely, you definitely can't estimate it split into multiple outcomes.




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