Survival Analysis: Produce a Single Time-to-Event Prediction from Survival Functions

Survival analysis is a family of statistical methods for analyzing time-to-event data. Traditionally, this technique was used in the health and insurance domains, where the event of interest would be death, re-hospitalization, and similarly morbid events. However, survival analysis can be applied to model any time period, like the time it takes for a person to get a job, a system to fail, or a customer to churn.

Survival analysis is unique in its …

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