| Article ID: | iaor20161414 |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 45 |
| End Page Number: | 49 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Gerds Thomas A |
| Keywords: | statistics: inference |
Survival is difficult to estimate when observation periods of individuals differ in length. Students imagine sailing the Titanic and then recording whether they "live" or "die". A clever algorithm is performed which results in the Kaplan‐Meier estimate of survival.