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[This](http://src.alionscience.com/pdf/CENSOR.pdf) is a nice paper with pretty pictures explaining the different types of data censoring.
I don't have to worry about that, since our data are uncensored (proteins being cheaper and living shorter lives than humans), but I was getting a bit nervous about what failure-censored sampling meant.

In other jargon news, the [first order statistic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_statistics), just means the sample minimum.

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