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Subject: coxphfit in Statistics toolbox
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The "censoring" option for coxphfit in the Statistics
toolbox has the following definition in the Matlab documents
"A boolean array of the same size as Y that is 1 for
observations that are right-censored and 0 for observations
that are observed exactly." This is exactly opposite to the
common definition in the literature in which 1 is for
observations that are observed exactly (true event) and 0 is
for right-censored observations. Is it a typo in the
documents or the definition of censoring in the Matlab code
is really like that (i.e., opposite to the commonly used one)? 

Thanks very much.