Definition:Censored Observation/Right

Definition

Consider a statistical study which involves times to failure.

Such data may be incomplete, in the sense that some experimental units:

may not have failed by the end of the study

or:

may have been withdrawn or lost before failure.

Such data are said to be right censored.

Also see

• Definition:Left Censored Observation

• Results about censored observations can be found here.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): censored observation
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): censored observation