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DOCUMENT Citation Only William Brown. Ben Hanowell.

The time-transgressive loss of archaeological, paleontological, and other geological deposits to destructive geomorphic processes has been parametrically modeled by T. Surovell and colleagues (2009), with minor revisions offered by A. Williams (2012). We expand on these modeling efforts in an explicitly survival-analytic framework, employing analytical techniques tailored to the study of time-to-event processes and data. First we show that Surovell and colleagues’ model is in fact a reduced...