Oyewole Kazeem Oyedele, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe,
& Olusola Ayeni
Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Email: mrokoyedele@gmail.com
EXCLUSIVE
BREASTFEEDING
YES
CENSORING
Supplementary feeding Infant still under EBF Ill-health/death of under-2 Ill-health/death of Mother
EBF DURATION
< 6 Month 6 Months
> 6 Months
NO
MOTHER FACTOR Reproductive Health Maternal Health Demographic Socio-economic
INFANT/
UNDER-2 SURVIVAL
α
EBF time event ‘E
i’ ={ 𝟎, 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝑩𝑭 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝟏, 𝒊𝒇 𝑬𝑩𝑭 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅
S(t) = P(T>t) = ∫ 𝑓(𝑢)𝑑𝑢
𝑡∞= 1 – F(t) ... (1) λ
λ(t) =
𝑝(𝑡≤𝑇<𝑡+𝜕𝑡)𝑃(𝑇≤𝑡)
=
𝑓(𝑡)𝑆(𝑡)….. (2)
𝑠(𝑡) = ∏ (𝑛
𝑗− 𝑑
𝑗) 𝑛
𝑗𝑘 𝑗=1
… … … (3)
λ
λ β β β
λ λ
β
λ β
λ β β β
β β
≠
β β
i.e. t
2̴ χ
21d.f.
β β
β
λ λ
λ