About the Left censoring method

[poypoyan]

About the Left censoring method

[poypoyan]

Hello,

This is just an acknowledgement for now. I will get into this a bit later, because I am not doing machine learning these days.

I will just say two things:

• I am not even sure that "left-censoring" is the correct term for that.
• My reference for both left and right censoring is section 2.2.1. of Yu. The "general assumption" there is when both left and right censoring are ON in my edhsmm.
  
  However, Yu describes a very general hsmm there, so there is a need to simplify the formulas for (explicit duration) hsmm. I need to check again how I implemented left censoring in my code. Then I will add details in my code (esp. _hsmm_core.pyx) and the notebook.

I recommend against using left_censor for serious purposes for now.

Thanks for the feedback!

[rtrepos]

Thank you for your quick answer. It looks promising and deserves to be tested indeed.