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MoleMan
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Hi,
There is another thread about this but my query is slightly different:
Given the ambiguity of the wording of this question, could the 'survival' referred to here be interpreted as surviving within the course [would that interpretation have been granted full marks]?
i.e. both dropping out and passing would result in the student no longer attending the course, so both count as a 'death' in the sense of the estimate.
The other thread asks if one or the other could be an interpretation [this is answered by the examiners report; both were given full credit] but my question is on the interpretation of 'Survival'.
It's an actuarial exam so interpreting one of the 'Reasons for Leaving' as 'censoring' and the other as 'death' is the prudent thing to do but with the time constraints there's not much time to revise the initial interpretation especially given the intricate ways in which examiners word their questions; this could very easily have been the the first exception where the examiner wanted students to consider both as 'deaths' and neither as 'censored'.
Sorry for the long Post.
Best,
MoleMan
There is another thread about this but my query is slightly different:
Given the ambiguity of the wording of this question, could the 'survival' referred to here be interpreted as surviving within the course [would that interpretation have been granted full marks]?
i.e. both dropping out and passing would result in the student no longer attending the course, so both count as a 'death' in the sense of the estimate.
The other thread asks if one or the other could be an interpretation [this is answered by the examiners report; both were given full credit] but my question is on the interpretation of 'Survival'.
It's an actuarial exam so interpreting one of the 'Reasons for Leaving' as 'censoring' and the other as 'death' is the prudent thing to do but with the time constraints there's not much time to revise the initial interpretation especially given the intricate ways in which examiners word their questions; this could very easily have been the the first exception where the examiner wanted students to consider both as 'deaths' and neither as 'censored'.
Sorry for the long Post.
Best,
MoleMan