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Interval-censoring

Interval-censoring is incomplete event-time observation in which an event is known to have occurred within an interval but its exact time is unknown.

Related Observatory article: Interval-censoring on hesela.com

NIST distinguishes interval records from exact event times and right-censored follow-up. [1] In storage, a verified last-good observation L and first detected persistent corruption R can imply L < T <= R only when both observations concern the same content version and the verification covers the event. A schedule or whole-job completion time is not automatically a block-level last-good observation. Repair, overwrites, missed checks and detection limits require explicit treatment. The midpoint is an imputed time, not an observed onset. This application is an interpretation rule, not a fitted failure model. [2]

Relations

related
right-censoring, informative-censoring, latent-sector-error, data-scrubbing, mean-time-to-detection

Citations

  1. NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook: Censoring, readout or interval data. (accessed 2026-10-16)
  2. Hesela: Scrubbing inspection intervals and evidence bounds. (accessed 2026-10-16)

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