A popular model used in survival analysis that

can be used to
assess the importance of various covariates in
the survival times
of individuals or objects through the hazard
function. In addition,
the quantitative impact of these variables on
important lifetime
variables of interest (such as median survival)
can be described.
The heuristics behind the model:
Suppose we have 3 individuals, labeled A, B,
and C, who are at
risk for some particular event. Then we are told
a week later that
one of them had the event. If we know that each
individual had
the same risk for that event, what can we say
about the probability
that it was A (or B, or C)?
Knowing that each had the same risk tells us
that each