A group of people have received treatment for cancer. Let t be the survival time, the number

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A group of people have received treatment for cancer. Let t be the survival time, the number of years a person lives after the treatment. The density function giving the distribution of t is p(t) = Ce−Ct for some positive constant C. What is the practical meaning of the cumulative distribution function P(t) = ∫t0 p(x) dx?

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Applied Calculus

ISBN: 9781119275565

6th Edition

Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, Sheldon P. Gordon, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Andrew Pasquale

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