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John [[Special:Contributions/60.225.31.6|60.225.31.6]] 00:40, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 
John [[Special:Contributions/60.225.31.6|60.225.31.6]] 00:40, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 
Can anyone please provide an update to this page on Randall's fiance's health? Apologies if this is common knowledge.
 
I agree with John's reaction.  I wanted a better number for my wife back in the spring of 2008, and got it.  She survived 3 years instead of the (then) predicted average of six months for inflammatory breast cancer.  We could have been just an outlier on the low probability end of the curve, but I like to think the medical community is continually improving their curves, and I am very grateful for the extra time.  She passed away four days after this strip was posted - which explains why I haven't seen this strip until now.
 
 
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.228|108.162.216.228]] 21:26, 28 November 2013 (UTC)Grant
 
 
So, how is this incomplete? Can we remove the incompleteness mark? --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.196|173.245.53.196]] 13:02, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 
 
I think the linking to the blog post is more sensitive than explaining it here. Remove tag? --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.207|141.101.98.207]] 14:19, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 
 
 
What is the dashed line?  It kind of looks like it might be the derivative of the solid line.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.214.53|108.162.214.53]] 00:39, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 
 
I think I explained the dashed line, it's a hazard function or at least it would be a plausible hazard function for that kind of survival function. Feel free to improve the formatting or remove the incomplete tag. --[[User:Artod|Artod]] ([[User talk:Artod|talk]]) 07:06, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 
 
TEN YEARS [[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.179|172.69.33.179]] 17:38, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 

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